After seven years of legislative effort to make it happen and 128 years after she became the country’s first female state senator, the statue of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon — a renowned leader in the women’s suffrage movement — has finally been installed at the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. Members of Utah’s congressional delegation and state officials joined a dedication ceremony in Washington, D.C., recently to celebrate the milestone. Two of the state’s top elected women, U.S. Rep. Celeste Maloy and Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, stood alongside male dignitaries to pull a black covering off of Cannon’s statue, which now stands as one of two representing the state of Utah in the hall devoted to displaying sculptures of prominent Americans

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