Mary U. Farquharson (née Nichols; April 5, 1901 - September 1, 1982) was an American politician who served as a member of the Washington State Senate from 1935 to 1943.
[4] Her first Senate campaign prominently featured Upton Sinclair's slogan "Production for use not for profit,"[2] embodying a central economic tenet for both evolutionary socialists and revolutionary Marxists in the movements' 19th-century origins.
[9] Her legislative priorities also included seeking a progressive state income tax, funding education, advocating a unicameral legislature, and repealing Washington's criminal syndicalism law.
[4] In 1939, she helped secure commutation of the sentence of Ray Becker, the last Industrial Workers of the World member incarcerated in relation to the Centralia Massacre, who had maintained his innocence for the intervening 20 years.
[4] More broadly, her advocacy against mass internment included working in 1943 as one organizers of the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play.