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"If you want to serve the people, go where the laws are made."
That was the philosophy of Reva Beck Bosone, who took the
state by storm when she became the first woman to represent
Utah in the halls of Congress.
During her first political race, Bosone carried her two-year-old
daughter door-to-door as she campaigned in Carbon County for
a seat in the state legislature.
In 1936 she became the first woman ever elected a judge
in the state of Utah. Bosone never bowed to public opinion.
She was a fierce liberal from a generally conservative state.
Her straight talk earned her a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives
in the late-1940s, but it also made political enemies.
In the era of Joseph McCarthy, Bosone was labeled "soft"
on Communism -- a charge that may have cost her the 1952 election.
But her career had changed the face of Utah politics forever.
In this election year, your vote will help write the next
chapter of history.
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Reva
Beck Bosone was the first woman ever elected a judge in the
state of Utah and, later, the first Congress-woman from Utah.