Nettie McKenzie Clapp | |
State House: | Ohio |
State: | Ohio |
District: | 94th |
Term: | January 1922 – December 1930 |
Birth Date: | August 22, 1868 |
Birth Place: | Cincinnati, Ohio |
Death Place: | Cleveland, Ohio |
Party: | Republican |
Spouse: | Harold T. Clapp |
Nettie McKenzie Clapp (August 22, 1868 – July 30, 1935) was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. In 1922 she became one of the first women elected to the Ohio General Assembly.[1] Clapp was the first woman legislator to sponsor a bill[2] in the Ohio General Assembly and the first woman to serve on the Republican National Convention Executive Committee in 1924.[3]
Clapp served four consecutive terms in the Ohio Legislature from 1922 to 1930 representing Cuyahoga County.