birth_place political_party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
franklin , new hampshire democrat new state planning director hampshire state senator -- 15th district new hampshire 05 july 1920 january 1977 march 1960 mary louise hancock
 july 1979 september 1976 mary louise hancock
mary louise hancock

mary louise hancock -lrb- born july 5 , 1920 -rrb- is a retired new hampshire state senator , former new hampshire state planning director and has been called the ` grand dame ' and the ` queen bee ' of new hampshire politics .
she is a long term resident of new hampshire 's capital city of concord and was the first woman to be elected senator from the state 's 15th district .
she received both the robert frost award and the susan b. anthony award .
she has received honorary degrees from keene state college as well as notre dame college of new hampshire .
ms. hancock is a distant relative of famed revolutionary john hancock .
