Clara Stone Fields | |
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Member of the Alabama Legislature | |
In office 1963–1971 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Mobile, Alabama | February 5, 1908
Died | June 2, 1981 Decatur, Alabama | (aged 73)
Political party | Democratic |
Clara Stone Fields Collins (1908–1981) was a businesswoman and politician from Mobile, Alabama. The first woman to represent Mobile in the Alabama legislature and the first to qualify to run for Congress from Alabama, she was elected in 1962 and re-elected twice, becoming the only woman in the legislature during that decade, but failed to win re-nomination in the 1970 Democratic primary.
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