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Grace Dorris, State Assemblywoman
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Posted by admin Fri Aug 31, 2007 16:32:47 PDT
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Elected to the state Assembly in 1918, one of the four women to break the legislature¹s gender barrier that year. First woman to introduce a bill before the Legislature; re-elected in 1920, 1922 and 1924

Dorris, wife of influential attorney Wiley Dorris, moved to Taft and then to Bakersfield in 1913.
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