Elizabeth Eyre Pellet

Elizabeth "Betty" Eyre Pellet (née Elizabeth Eyre;[1] January 15, 1887 – April 7, 1976)[2] was an American actress, suffragist, and state legislator who served in the state of Colorado. A Democrat, she represented southern Colorado counties of Dolores, Montezuma, and San Miguel in the Colorado House of Representatives, from 1948 to 1964, and as minority leader, from 1955 to 1956.[3] She was the first woman to serve as Colorado's House minority leader.

Biography

Elizabeth Eyre was born in South Norwalk (now part of Norwalk), Connecticut on January 15, 1887.[2] She acted on Broadway and in a silent film, The Plunderer (1915). In New York she also marched as a suffragist. She was married in 1919 to lawyer Robert Lockwood Pellet (1872–1949).[2]

She moved to Colorado with her husband and they operated mines in Rico, Colorado, where she was elected to the school board.[1] She wrote an autobiography titled, That Pellet Woman! (1965, published by Stein and Day).[4] She worked to gain federal support to save and restore the Rio Grande Southern Railroad.[5]

She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2016.[1]

See also

References
  1. "Elizabeth Eyre Pellet". Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
  2. "The Political Graveyard: Dolores County, Colo., Elizabeth E. Pellet (1887-1976)". The Political Graveyard. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  3. "Women Who Served in the Colorado House of Representatives". Strong Sisters. Colorado Legislative Women’s Caucus. Archived from the original on 2018-12-03.
  4. Sprague, Marshall (May 16, 1965). "The Lady Went West; " THAT PELLET WOMAN!" By Betty Pellet with Alexander Klein. Illustrated. 379 pp. New York: Stein & Day. $5.95" – via NYTimes.com.
  5. Black, Laurel (November 5, 2015). "Rico woman to be inducted into Colorado Women's Hall of Fame". Telluride Daily Planet. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12.
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