Idamae Garrott (December 24, 1916 – June 13, 1999) was an American politician from Silver Spring, Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party.
[1][5] Garrott lost the 1974 election for Montgomery County Executive to Republican James P. Gleason and the 1976 Democratic primary race for the House of Representatives to Lanny Davis.
[5] She got started in politics in 1952 when she helped found the Montgomery County League of Women Voters, of which she was president from 1962 to 1966.
[2] The executive director of the Humane Society of Baltimore County described her posthumously as "the most prominent advocate of animal protection legislation in Maryland's General Assembly", and as a leader in the effort to make dog fighting illegal in Maryland (the last of the 50 states to ban dog fighting), introducing legislation every year for 10 years.
[6] Garrott was also credited with saving the historic Linden Oak in the 1970s by getting the Washington Metro's Red Line rerouted around it.