Martha "Mattie" Hughes Cannon was a nineteenth-century doctor, woman's suffragist, and the first-ever female state senator. She was also the fourth wife of a Mormon polygamist. Her story is full of paradoxes, and defies stereotypes.

Wonder Women

Wonder Women

Martha Hughes Cannon * Megan Armknecht

JUL 25, 201816 MIN
Wonder Women

Martha Hughes Cannon * Megan Armknecht

JUL 25, 201816 MIN

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Martha "Mattie" Hughes Cannon was a nineteenth-century doctor, woman's suffragist, and the first-ever female state senator. She was also the fourth wife of a Mormon polygamist. Her story is full of paradoxes, and defies stereotypes.