House 1923-43 (District 30)
Party when first elected: Nonpartisan Election-Conservative Caucus
Counties Served:
Hennepin
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth:
??/??/1870
Birth Place:
Newburyport, Massachusetts
Birth County:
Birth Country:
United States
Date of Death:
8/19/1961
Gender:
Female
Religion:
Presbyterian, Congregational
Reported Minority: None Reported
Other Names:
Former Name: Hurd
City of Residence (when first elected):
Minneapolis
Occupation (when first elected):
Business Manager; Organization Operating Hospital, Home Club for Girls and Home for the Aged/Lawyer/Former Supervisor of Art, Minneapolis Public Schools
EDUCATION
Newburyport Schools, Massachusetts; Elementary School;
Newburyport Schools, Massachusetts; Secondary; Graduate
Normal Art School, Boston, Massachusetts; Attended College;
Julian Art Academie, Paris; Attended College; 1894
University of Nebraska; Attended College; 1 Year, 1870
University of Minnesota, College of Law; B.L.; 1895-1899 or 1900, Admitted to the Minnesota Bar, 1900
OTHER GOVERNMENT SERVICE
State Board/Commission/Council:
Minnesota State Constitutional Commission;
19?? to 19??
State Agency:
Minnesota Division of Employment and Security (Advisory Council Member);
19?? to 19??
Municipal Government:
Minneapolis, Minnesota (Police Survey Committee);
19?? to 19??
Municipal Board/Commission:
Minneapolis, Minnesota (Charter Commission);
19?? to 19??
State Board/Commission/Council:
Governor's Interracial Commission;
194? to 194?
FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
Spouse:
James Paige (married on June 10, 1895; he died in 1940, while she was in office); Widow
Children:
One child: Elizabeth (daughter)
Family Members Who Have Served in the Minnesota Legislature:
GENERAL NOTES
She was one of the first four women to serve in the Minnesota Legislature. The others were: Sue Metzger Dickey Hough, Hannah Johnson Kempfer, and Myrtle Cain. All four were elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives.
She moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1891.
"Rebuffed by the regular Republican party organization, Mabeth Hurd Paige, as her name later appeared on the ballot, ran independently." ("Women Legislators: Mabeth Hurd Paige." Women of Minnesota: Selected Biographical Essays, St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1998, p. 254)
"Well-anyhow, throughout her incumbency she would be a free lance-a liberal conservative. She would not have the dictators of any party making her decisions for her even though the leaders of the group with which she was associated might sometimes be disappointed in her vote." (Lady in Law: A Biography of Mabeth Hurd Paige, 1950, p. 240)
She was a member of the Republican Party. (Minnesota Legislative Commission on the Economic Status of Women)
She was a charter member of the League of Minnesota Women Voters.
She was President of the Women's Christian Association from 1910-1922.
Mabeth Paige Hall in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota was named after her.
She had a stroke in January 1961 and died after a long illness at Masonic Memorial Hospital, one of the University of Minnesota's Hospitals, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
She was raised a Congregationalist but adopted her husband's Presbyterian religion after she got married.