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Rosa Lyons McKay - Wikipedia

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Rosa Lyons McKay
Rosa McKay, from a 1918 publication
Born	Rosa Jane Lyons November 18, 1881 Idaho Springs, Colorado
Died	March 20, 1934 Phoenix, Arizona
Occupation(s)	Legislator, suffragist
Known for	member of Arizona state legislature (1919–1920, 1923–1924)

Rosa Lyons McKay (November 18, 1881^{[Notes 1]} – March 20, 1934) was an American politician. She was one of the first women elected to the Arizona state legislature, serving in the 1917–1918, 1919–1920, and 1923–1924 sessions. She was inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame in 2019.

Early life

Rosa Jane Lyons was born in Idaho Springs, Colorado, the daughter of John Lyons and Sarah Ratliff Lyons. She was raised by her widowed mother and an older sister.^[1]

Career

McKay first ran for a seat in the Arizona state legislature in 1915. She was elected to an assembly seat in 1916, and served three terms; she represented Cochise County in the 1917–1918 session, and Gila County in the 1919–1920 and 1923–1924 sessions.^[2]^[3] While in office, she successfully introduced a bill for a "woman's minimum wage",^[4]^[5]^[6] actively opposed the Bisbee Deportation,^[7]^[8]^[9] criticized large mining companies including Phelps Dodge,^[1] and sued a newspaper for libel.^[10] In 1919, her name was mentioned as a dark horse possibility for speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives.^[11]^[12] In 1920, she was one of the four women to introduce the resolution for Arizona to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment,^[13] and she was considered a possible candidate for the state senate.^[14]

Outside of her elected office, McKay was active in the Business and Professional Women's Club in Phoenix.^[15] She served on the Board of Visitors for the Tempe Normal School (now Arizona State University), and held a seat on the Child Welfare Board.^[2]^[16] "I belong to no labor organization or mining corporation", she wrote in an essay about the Bisbee Deportation for Appeal to Reason in 1917; "I am merely an onlooker and spectator, and a firm believer in the constitutional rights of all American citizens, whether by birth or naturalization, the rights that our forefathers fought, bled, and died for," she explained.^[17]

Personal life and legacy

Rosa Lyons married twice. Her first husband, Andrew J. Malcolm, was a miner; they married in 1897, and he died in 1904. She married another miner, Hugh McKay, in 1912. She died in 1934, in Phoenix, Arizona, aged 53 years.^[18]^[19]^[20] In 2019, she was posthumously inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame.^[1]

Notes

^ While many sources place the birth of Rosa Lyons in November 1881, she was listed as a 2-year-old child in her mother's Colorado household in the 1880 Federal Census (via Ancestry.com), suggesting a somewhat earlier date.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Rosa Lyons McKay". AWHF. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
^ ^a ^b The State Library of Arizona (2018-11-02). "Meet Rosa McKay: Champion of Women's Rights & Minimum Wage". The Shining S.T.A.R.L. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
^ "Arizona's Men Legislators". The Woman Citizen. 3: 175. July 27, 1918.
^ "Hunt Signs Two Bills; Gives Pen to Globe Woman". Arizona Republic. 1923-02-14. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Mrs. M'Kay Named to Confer on Wage Law for Women". Arizona Republic. 1923-05-06. p. 20. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Mrs. Rosa McKay Named Delegate to Wage Meeting". Arizona Daily Star. 1923-05-06. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Army of Exiles Now in Columbus". The Ogden Standard. 1917-07-14. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Woman Tells of the Bisbee Deportation". Altoona Tribune. 1920-02-18. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Woman Witness in I.W.W. Hearings Denies Statement". El Paso Times. 1919-08-02. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Rosa McKay Sues Paper for Libel". Tucson Citizen. 1919-11-27. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Many Candidates for Presiding Chair in Both Houses of Arizona Legislature; Caucus on Sunday". Arizona Daily Star. 1919-01-11. p. 3. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Coulter is Out for Speaker of the Senate". Tucson Citizen. 1922-11-17. p. 10. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Willson, Roscoe (1967-06-11). "Arizona Days: Story of Woman's Vote". Arizona Republic. p. 220. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Rosa McKay Candidate for State Senatorship". Tombstone Weekly Epitaph. 1920-04-11. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Business Women's Club". Arizona Republic. 1923-01-21. p. 19. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Prescott Woman is Appointed to Post on Welfare Board". Arizona Republic. 1924-03-20. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Rosa, McKay (1917-08-18). "Butte and Bisbee Outrages Scored by Brave Woman Representatives". Appeal to Reason. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Rosa McKay Dies in Home". Arizona Republic. 1934-03-21. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "M'Kay Funeral to be This Afternoon". Arizona Daily Star. 1934-03-22. p. 5. Retrieved 2021-08-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Funeral Services Conducted for Former State Legislator" Arizona Republic (March 23, 1934): 5. via Newspapers.com

External links

Photograph of Rosa McKay (1920), Arizona Memory Project, Arizona State Archives

Arizona Women's Hall of Fame – by year of induction

1980s

1981	Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton Cordelia Adams Crawford Sharlot Hall Isabella Greenway King Lorna E. Lockwood Anna Moore Shaw
1982	Nellie T. Bush Eulalia Elias Ana Frohmiller Maie Bartlett Heard Frances Lillian Willard Munds Placida Garcia Smith
1983	Mary Bernard Aguirre Angela Hutchinson Hammer Laura E. Herron Edith Stratton Kitt Amy Cornwall Neal Jane H. Rider
1984	Rachel Emma Allen Berry Nellie Cashman Sallie Davis Hayden Elsie Toles Carmen Soto Vasquez
1985	Ida Redbird Sarah Herring Sorin Grace M. Sparkes Louisa Wade Wetherill
1986	Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter Helen Congdon D'Autremont Minnie K. Guenther Viola Jimulla Nampeyo Ruth Reinhold Clarissa Winsor
1987	Eulalia "Sister" Bourne Ann-Eve Mansfeld Johnson Abbie W. Keith Jessie Harper Linde Hattie Greene Lockett Clara T. Woody
1988	Grace Chapella Josephine W. Goldwater Hallie Bost Wright Hopkins Clara Otero Thamar Richey Mary V. Riley
1989	Guess Eleanor Birchett Polly Hicks Brown Jessie Benton Evans Mollie Fly Elizabeth S. Oldaker Minna Vrang Orme

1990s

1990	Clara Osborne Botzum Vernell Coleman Josephine Brawley Hughes Elizabeth Shannon Minnie McFarland Stevens Florence Brookhart Yount
1991	Margaret Bell Douglas Margaret Taylor Hance Polingaysi Qöyawayma (Elizabeth Q. White) Margaret Sanger Slee Ola Young
1994	Maria Urquides

2000s

2002	Mary Elizabeth Post Annie Dodge Wauneka
2004	Veora Johnson Louise Lincoln Kerr Winona E. Montgomery Clara Lee Tanner
2006	Jessie Gray Bevan Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton Ethel Maynard Patricia Ann McGee Polly Rosenbaum
2008	Betty Accomazzo Katharine Bartlett C. Louise Boehringer Sister Kathleen Clark

2010s

2010	Helene Thomas Bennett Alice M. Birdsall Pauline Bates Brown Jean Maddock Clark Anne E. Lindeman
2013	Rose E. Collom Jean Chaudhuri Helen Sekaquaptewa Jacque Yelland Steiner Dorothy Elaine Powell
2015	Marietta Bryant Daisy Moore Lorraine W. Frank Louise Foucar Marshall Helen K. Mason Lucy Sikorsky
2017	Rebecca Dallis Sister Clare Dunn Gladys McGarey Clara M. Schell Louise Serpa Christine Kajikawa Wilkinson Julia Zozaya
2018	Erma Bombeck Josefina Franco Maria Garcia Margaret Injasoulian Alison Levine Bridgie M. Porter Mary Jo West
2019	Shelley Cohn Kate Cory Emma Lee French Sharon Harper (Ethnographer) Guadalupe Huerta Cindy Hensley McCain Rosa Lyons McKay Barbara Rodriguez Mundell

2020s

2020	Betsey Bayless Jana Bommersbach Betty Fairfax Jean E. Fairfax Gracia Liliana Fernandez Michele Halyard Pauline O’Neill Karrin Taylor Robson Catherine Steele (Arizona) Carolyn Warner
2021	Barbara Barrett Armida Guerena Bittner Mary Black Margie Emmerman Jane Dee Hull Gerda Weissmann Klein
2022	Dosia Carlson Sheila Grinell Edna Landin Janet Napolitano Victoria Mary Stephens Pearl Tang
2023	LaVerne Williams Eleanor Ragsdale Theodora Marsh Terri Cruz Octaviana J. Trujillo Emma Torres Denise Resnik Diana Yazzie Devine

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