Idaho, Class III
Harriet F. Noble (D): 1927-1930* [1]
S. Belle Chamberlain (R): 1930-1939 [2]
Lela D. Painter (R): 1939-1945 [3]
Myrtle Enking (D): 1945-1957 [4]
Gracie Pfost (D): 1957-1965* [5]
Marjorie Ruth Moon (D): 1965-1981 [6]
Helen Chenoweth-Hage (R): 1981-2005 [7]
Jana Kemp (R, I after 2015): 2005-2015, 2015 to 2017 [8]
Judy Boyle (R): 2017-present [9]
[1] Hattie Noble was Engrossment Clerk for the Idaho legislature beginning in 1875, a clerical position, and then was elected to the State House in 1898.
[2] S. Belle Chamberlain was Idaho's State Superintendent of Instruction from 1907 to 1911.
[3] Lela Painter was a teacher and assistant cashier who rose through Idaho politics as treasurer at various levels, up to serving as Idaho State Treasurer from 1947 to 1952.
[4] Myrtle Enking was... also Idaho State Treasurer. But earlier, from 1933 to 1944. She was Idaho's first in a long line of women state treasurers. Yeah, expect a few of them here. Women held the office of state treasurer for a period from 1933 to 1998 broken only by Rulon Swenson, who was treasurer from 1959 to 1962 between the death of Ruth G. Moon and Marjorie Ruth Moon (who was, incidentally, Ruth's daughter).
[5] Gracie Pfost was not Idaho State Treasurer. Pfost was, however, Idaho's first woman in Congress, representing the 1st district from 1953 to 1963. Pfost ran for Senate in 1962 and lost by less than 2 percent to former governor Len Jordan.
[6] Marjorie Ruth Moon was a prominent Idaho newspaper publisher, and you guessed it, State Treasurer. Moon served as Treasurer for over two decades from 1963 to 1986, only giving up her position to run for lieutenant governor in 1986. While fellow Democratic governor Cecil Andrus retained his seat by less than 4,000 votes, Moon lost to Butch Otter by 2,700.
[7] Helen Chenoweth-Hage represented Idaho's 1st Congressional district from 1995 to 2001. Elected during the 1994 Republican Revolution, Chenoweth-Hage was one of the most conservative members of the House at the time.
[8] Jana Kemp was an Idaho state representative who ran for governor as an independent in 2010, getting nearly 6 percent of the vote.
[9] Judy Boyle is an Idaho state representative. She was Helen Chenoweth-Hage's natural resources director and is currently vice chair of the state house agricultural affairs committee.