Marion West Higgins (January 9, 1915 – December 24, 1991) was an American Republican Party politician who served as the first female Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly.
[2] She attended New Rochelle High School before entering Mount Holyoke College, where she graduated with a degree in political science in 1936.
In 1941 she married William F. Higgins, and in 1949 they moved to Hillsdale, New Jersey to open a real estate and insurance business.
[3] Higgins became involved in Bergen County Republican politics, and in 1959 she was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly, where she served three terms.
[2] She was also the first woman to serve on the board of Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.[5] In 1991, at the age of 76, Higgins died at Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood, New Jersey after suffering injuries in a car accident in Hillsdale.