By Valerie Marvin
In November 1920 Eva McCall Hamilton made national news when Grand Rapids voters elected her to the Michigan Senate. Ever since, she’s been celebrated as a trailblazer-Michigan’s first female legislator. But Hamilton had actually been going to the Capitol, and working in political circles, for years before her election. Learn more about the issues and passions that drove her, and the many challenges she faced, as Michigan’s “Lady Senator.”
Valerie Marvin is honored to serve as the Director of Education and History at the Michigan State Capitol, a National Historic Landmark. A graduate of the University of Michigan (Bachelor of Arts in Russian Studies, 2005) and Eastern Michigan (Masters of Science in Historic Preservation, 2009), she lives with her husband David in a 1906 home in downtown Lansing
