Eleanor Nugent Somerville was the first woman elected to the Mississippi Legislature. Her daughter, Lucy Somerville Howorth, was soon elected to that body as well, and the two became the second mother-daughter pair elected to a state legislature in the United States, behind only Helen Timmons Henderson and Helen Ruth Henderson of Virginia.
- Occupation
- politician, suffragist
- Position held
- member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 25, 1863
- Died
