Dora Pinkham (September 27, 1891 — November 19, 1941) was a Republican politician and the first woman elected to the Maine Legislature.
[1][2] Bradbury graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1913, and earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1914.
[1] Pinkham, a Protestant, represented an overwhelmingly Catholic region of Maine that bordered on the Canadian province of Quebec.
That year, both Pinkham and Katherine C. Allen became the first women to serve in the Maine Senate.
[1] After leaving the Senate, Pinkham served as special secretary to Maine Governor William Tudor Gardiner.