Local group asks Pueblo County to name elections office for early woman legislator Carrie Clyde Holly

Victoria Markinson, representing the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Group, asked the Pueblo County Board of County Commissioners on Jan. 2 to formally name the county elections office after Carrie Clyde Holly and to place a portrait and historical materials on public display.

Markinson told commissioners the group has struggled to raise funds for a previously approved statue and instead bought and paid for an oil portrait and a plaque. "We would like to have the Pueblo County elections department formally named the Carrie Clyde Holly Pueblo County Elections department," she said, and asked that the portrait and related memorabilia be displayed in a lobby area so more people could see them.

The request matters, Markinson said, because Holly was a Pueblo pioneer in politics: the group’s handout states she was the first woman attorney in…