A photograph of Minnie Tamar Johnson Grinstead at her desk in the Kansas House of Representatives. Grinstead, a Republican from Seward County, Kansas, District 123, served from 1919-1923 and was the first woman legislator in the Kansas House of Representatives. She was born in Crawford County, graduated from the State Normal school at Emporia, taught school, and lectured for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Grinstead was married to Judge Virgil H. Grinstead.