Sara Conboy

Sara Agnes Mclaughlin Conboy (April 3, 1870 – January 7, 1928) was a labor organizer in the United States.

During this period she was married to a mailman named Joseph P. Conboy, but he died two years afterward.

[1] Rising to prominence in the labor movement, Sara helped organize the United Textile Workers of America, eventually becoming their secretary-treasurer in 1915.

In 1920 she was the first woman to serve as a United States delegate to the British Trades Union Congress.

She was also the first woman to direct a bank in the state of New York,[3] and she served on several government committees.