“. . . he’s working on drafting a bill that would swap Farnsworth’s statue with one of Martha Hughes Cannon, which now sits outside the Utah state Capitol. Hughes is notable as the first woman in the country elected to a state Senate seat. . . .Many may also be unfamiliar with the story of Cannon, a Mormon pioneer who earned a medical degree from the University of Michigan. But Gardiner said the polygamous wife and suffragette, who defeated her own husband when she won her state Senate seat in 1896, would represent a key piece of Utah’s history on D.C.’s national stage.”

http://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2017/08/08/utah-legislator-drafting-bill-to-boot-tv-inventor-philo-farnsworths-statue-from-us-capitol/