Elizabeth P. Farrington

Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington , usually called Elizabeth P. Farrington, was publisher of the Honolulu StarBulletin and an American statesman who served as delegate to the United States Congress for the Territory of Hawaii. She was the wife to Joseph Rider Farrington, whom she had succeeded in Washington, DC. Her fatherinlaw was the Territorial Governor of Hawaii Wallace Rider Farrington.

Farrington was born in Tokyo to American parents on May 30, 1898. She attended Tokyo Foreign School before moving back to the United States. She attended grammar schools in Nashville, Tennessee, El Paso, Texas and Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Hollywood High School, Farrington obtained a degree from WardBelmont Junior College of Nashville in 1916. She went on to the University of WisconsinMadison, where she met her husband. She graduated from Wisconsin in 1918. Newly married, she settled in Honolulu. She became a newspaper correspondent for the Honolulu StarBulletin through 1957.

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