Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for the unveiling of a statue of Martha Hughes Cannon. 2024-09-25 Passed Senate This concurrent resolution authorizes the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center on December 11, 2024, for an event to unveil a statue of Martha Hughes Cannon.

Cannon was a physician, a women's suffrage leader and orator, a public health advocate, and the first woman elected to a state senate in the United States.

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