Lulu Haddon

Lulu Haddon (; May 10, 1881 – June 20, 1964) was an American politician in the state of Washington. She was involved in civic activities in Bremerton, serving on the Bremerton School Board and as president of the local chapter of the League of Women Voters. She served in the Washington House of Representatives for the 23rd legislative district between 1933 and 1937 for the Democratic Party. She then was elected to the Washington State Senate in 1936, serving between 1937 and 1942. She was the Bremerton finance commissioner, during which time she was involved in setting up Olympic College. Her daughter, Frances Haddon Morgan, would later represent the same district in both the house and senate.

Early life Haddon was born Lulu Davis in May 10, 1881, in Ankeny, Iowa. She was one of eleven children. Her family moved to Spangle, Washington, when she was six. Her mother had attended college and she taught the children from home, although she received less than an eighth grade education. When she was eighteen, Haddon was invited to move in with her uncle, Francis A. Harlow, the mayor of Bremerton. She began working at C. P. Kimball's General Store after moving in with her aunt and uncle, where she met her future husband, James C. Haddon.

Her family were Republican when she was growing up, but Haddon joined the Democratic Party when she married James. She became involved in civic activities, with a particular focus on public education. She was quickly appointed as chair of the educational institutions committee and served on the education committee, the state penal and reformatory institutions committee, and the medicine, dentistry, pure foods and drugs committee. She had a particular interest in unemployment, which had been exacerbated by the Great Depression, and worked closely with the chair of the unemployment relief committee, fellow representative Warren Magnuson. During her first term, she sponsored a bill which was signed into law by Governor Clarence D. Martin to improve the "vocational rehabilitation and education of disabled persons". She was re-elected in the 1940 general election but Martin was not, having been defeated by Republican Arthur B. Langlie for governor. Haddon considered him a close ally and was frustrated by Langlie. Her daughter, Frances Haddon Morgan, was elected to her old seat in the Washington House of Representatives in 1956 and in 1960, she was elected to her mother's old seat in the state senate. Haddon attended her daughter's swearing-in ceremony for the senate on January 10, 1961, the only mother and daughter to hold the same seats in both chambers of the legislature.