Saint Kate: Ninety Pounds of Dynamite

20/10/2020 18 min
Saint Kate: Ninety Pounds of Dynamite

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Episode Synopsis

Kate Barnard was elected to statewide office in Oklahoma before she could vote for herself. She was a young, progressive reformer applying her vision of society to the new state government...and making it stick. She became known as St. Kate to those that benefitted from her policies, but she was thorn in the side to those who sought to use their positions to enrich themselves. Hear the story Oklahoma's pioneering reformer.