Mary Martha Presley Merritt (died May 15, 1994) was an American politician and civic leader.
[4] She was named "West Virginia's Outstanding Woman Legislator" by the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers University in 1972.
[1] That same year, she was appointed by Governor Arch A. Moore Jr. to serve on the Regional Education Board Conference in New Orleans.
[1] Merritt was a parishioner at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Beckley, West Virginia and served as the organist and choir director for thirteen years.
She served as the Regent of the Captain James Allen Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and as West Virginia State President of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.