Georgia Davis Powers

Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers (October 19, 1923 – January 30, 2016) was an American politician and civil rights activist. She served for 21 years as a member of the state Senate of Kentucky. When elected in 1967, she became the first non-White person and the first woman elected to the Kentucky Senate. She was born in Springfield, Kentucky.
Powers died of congestive heart failure in Louisville, Kentucky on January 30, 2016. She was aged 92.