Clara Campbell

Clara Permilia Little Campbell (February 12, 1846 – December 16, 1931) was a state legislator in Idaho.

Born in Somers, Connecticut, she married American Civil War veteran William Orlando Campbell in 1867 and they moved to Eugene, Oregon where her husband became superintendent for the Indian school at the Nez Perce Reservation in northern Idaho.

She was one of the first women to serve in the Idaho House of Representatives.

Two years later, Campbell, Harriet Noble and Mary Allen Wright became the first women elected to the Idaho House.

[2] A plaque in a hallway commemorating their achievements was moved to the Idaho Capitol's rotunda after a letter from a fourth grader.