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|predecessor = [[Joseph R. Farrington]]
|successor = [[John A. Burns]]
|office1 =President of the [[National Federation of Republican Women]]
|term_start1 = 1949
|term_end1 = 1952
|predecessor1 = [[Jessica M. Weis]]
|successor1 = [[Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis|Dorothy Andrews Elston]]
|spouse=[[Joseph R. Farrington]]
|birth_date = {{birth date|1898|05|30}}
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|party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
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[[File:OahuCemetery-WallaceRiderFarrington-gravemarker.JPG|thumb|right|Farrington grave marker in [[Oahu Cemetery]]]]
'''Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington''' (May 30, 1898 – July 21, 1984), more commonly known as '''Elizabeth P. Farrington''', was publisher of the ''[[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]]'' and an American politician who served as [[Delegate (United States Congress)|delegate]] to the [[United States Congress]] for the [[Territory of Hawaii|Territory of Hawai'i]]. She was the wife to [[Joseph Rider Farrington]], whom she had succeeded in [[Washington, D.C.]] Her father-in-law was the [[Governor of Hawaii|Territorial Governor of Hawai'i]] [[Wallace Rider Farrington]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_YaXzF7JQIvMC|title=Women in Congress, 1917-1990|publisher=Diane Publishing Company|year=1997|isbn=9780788142567}}</ref>
==Early life==
Farrington was born in [[Tokyo]]
She and her husband adopted two children.<ref name=HH />
==Political career==
Farrington was elected President of the [[League of Republican Women]], an office she served in [[Washington, D.C.]], from 1946 to 1948. She was then elected to the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs and served as its president from 1949 to 1953. In 1952, Farrington was a delegate for the Territory of Hawai'i to the [[Republican National Convention]] that nominated [[Dwight Eisenhower]] to become [[President of the United States]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/F/FARRINGTON,-Mary-Elizabeth-Pruett-(F000035)/|title=FARRINGTON, Mary Elizabeth Pruett {{!}} US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives|website=history.house.gov|language=en|access-date=2019-08-18}}</ref>
Farrington was elected to the United States Congress in a special election to fill a vacancy left by her husband's unexpected death. She was subsequently re-elected to a term in her own right, and served from July 31, 1954, to January 3, 1957. In 1956, she lost her bid for re-election to a third term in Congress and returned to her family's newspaper business in Honolulu.<ref name=":0" /> She was the first woman elected to represent Hawaii in any capacity (territory or state) in the U.S. Congress.<ref name=GB>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_lQe9xtU45oC&pg=PP105&lpg=PP105&dq=first+woman+elected+to+represent+Hawaii++farrington&source=bl&ots=rmtZLLgSqX&sig=ACfU3U3IcvEbJaMdU0XfotOj9Ahij5Khjw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjC-ZCUgqSGAxXDQkEAHYGABL0Q6AF6BAgnEAM#v=onepage&q=first%20woman%20elected%20to%20represent%20Hawaii%20%20farrington&f=false Google Books website, ''Women in the ... Congress, Volume 80'', page 18]</ref>
==Newspaper career==
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== External links ==
* [https://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/c.php?g=105630&p=687686 Congressional papers archival collection]
{{CongBio|F000035}}
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