{{Short description|California woman politician (1862-1948)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} '''Cora Woodbridge''' (September 1862-1948) was a civic leader and state legislator in California. In 1922 she became the first woman legislator chosen from the Ninth Assembly District.<ref name=wood>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rosevillehistorical.org/pioneers|title=Pioneers|website=Roseville Historical Society}}</ref> She was a Republican.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=holLAAAAYAAJ&dq=mary+b.+weaver+connecticut+senate&pg=RA11-PA35 | title=The Woman's Journal | year=1926 }}</ref>
Cora May Utte was born in Sacramento County. She married Dr. Bradford Woodbridge in Stockton. They had a daughter who sang opera.<ref name=wood/>
Woodridge led various civil projects.<ref name=wood/> She was president of the Women's Improvement Club, which she founded in 1910.<ref>{{cite book |title=Roseville |date=2010 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7385-7029-7 |pages=70, 98 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a_RQY9Q6SFMC&dq=%22cora+woodbridge%22&pg=PA98 |language=en}}</ref> Woodbridge was elected to the California Assembly in 1922, 1924, and 1926.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://womenscaucus.legislature.ca.gov/former-members|title=Former Members | California Legislative Women's Caucus|website=womenscaucus.legislature.ca.gov}}</ref>
==See also== *Enoch Woodbridge *Florence P. Kahn *Eleanor Miller
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