LADIES' GALLERY
Ladies' Gallery
Osa Penny
 
Service
Ohio House of Representatives, 1924 - 1928
Montgomery County

Party
Republican

Biography

A business executive from Dayton, Osa Penny served two terms in the Ohio House of Representatives. She was the first woman from Montgomery County to serve in the Ohio General Assembly.

 

She was appointed to the following House standing committees:

-Cities,

-Benevolent and Penal Institutions,

-Codes, Fees and Salaries, and

-Health.

 

She introduced legislation in the areas of divorce, child welfare, women's prisons, safety, and lighting of the Statehouse Rotunda.

 

Biography courtesy of the Ohio Women's Policy and Research Commission

 

Photo from The Indianapolis News, February 8, 1927, p. 10.