“Doris Allen, the first female speaker of the California Assembly, whose war with fellow Republicans led to her recall by Orange County voters in 1995, died Wednesday of cancer. She was 63…
“Elected to the Assembly in 1982, Allen spent 13 years focusing on education, including a popular measure to allow inter-district transfers, and on environmental issues. But the legislator probably will be remembered more for her brief, stormy reign as the first female speaker–an experience she likened to a stay in Dante’s “Inferno.”
Source: “Doris Allen, First Female Speaker of Assembly, Dies” by Nancy Hill-Holtzman and Jean O. Pasco in the Los Angeles Times (9/23/1999)
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