Her legacy will now be shared with the more than 3 million visitors that file through the Capitol Visitor’s Center each year.

Emancipation Hall in the U.S. Capitol now features a bronze statue of Martha “Mattie” Hughes Cannon (1857–1932), a Latter-day ...

Utah politicians and others reacted to the installation of a statue of Martha Hughes Cannon in the U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center on Wednesday. A trailblazing woman from Utah, Martha Hughes Cannon was ...

After seven years of legislative effort to make it happen and 128 years after she became the country’s first female state ...

After seven years of legislative effort to make it happen and 128 years after she became the country’s first female state senator, the statue of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon — a renowned ...

Among the 100 statues (two each for all 50 states), the statue is the 14th woman. Many in the audience were moved to tears, as now, a place in history for Martha — a suffragist, doctor ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Current and former elected officials and religious, business and community leaders filled Emancipation Hall in the U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center on Wednesday afternoon to celebrate ...