Martha Griffiths
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Martha Edna Wright Griffiths (January 29, 1912 - April 22, 2003) was an American lawyer and judge before being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1954. Griffiths was the first woman to be on the powerful House Ways and Mean Committee. She was also the woman most responsible for including women in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
