right to control their property. Coe was elected by her peers as the Senate president pro tempore from 1929 to the end of her term, the nation's first woman president pro tempore in any senate. Coe attended the University of New Mexico and graduated in 1930 with a Bachelor of Science in Education with a minor in Spanish. While at university, she joined the women's fraternity Alpha Delta Pi. In 1940, Coe ran for a position in the United States House of Representatives and was the first Democratic woman to do so. However, she lost to Clinton Presba Anderson in the primary election. After Coe left her position in the state Senate, no woman would be elected until 1965. As of 2012, Coe is still the only female president pro tempore of the New Mexico Senate. Later life In 1980, Mortar Board, an academic honors society, awarded Coe the Distinguished Women Award for her "outstanding contributions to education and government in New Mexico." Louise Holland Coe and her husband Wilbur may eventually have moved to Glencoe, New Mexico, an unincorporated community nearby. This community was named in her family's honor. Through her life, she traveled to various countries, including Thailand, Japan, and India. Coe died in 1985 from unstated natural causes, at Casa Maria Health Care Center in Roswell, New Mexico. Her remains were cremated and buried at her family's private cemetery in Glencoe. Publications (Originally published in New Mexico Magazine in the 1970s) References 1894 births 1985 deaths People from Bartlett, Texas People from Roswell, New Mexico Women state legislators in New Mexico Democratic Party New Mexico state senators 20th-century American politicians 20th-century American women politicians