Helen Ruth Henderson

The daughter of Helen Timmons Henderson, she was elected to her mother's old seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, entering in 1928[1] and serving one term.

[6] She began her teaching career in a one-room schoolhouse, and would go on to head the mission school founded by her mother.

[1] Henderson served as a Democrat[7] in the Virginia House of Delegates for a single two-year term, leaving in 1930.

There she spent thirteen years, rising from assistant supervisor to supervisor of elementary education, in which role she spearheaded the establishment of nurseries in public schools to support women working in war plants during World War II.

[2] She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was appointed by the governor of Virginia to work with the National Advisory Council on Illiteracy.