https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/039721https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/image/039721.jpgIzetta Jewel Brown Miller, LaJolla Beach, Ca.1972/11/24Portraits--M.The 89th birthday celebration for Izetta Jewel Brown Miller, widow of West Virginia Congressman, William Gay Brown of Preston County. Mrs. Miller was the first woman to second a presidential nominee in a major party convention (1920) and the first woman, south of the Mason-Dixon line to run for the U.S. Senate losing the West Virginia Democratic Party nomination to Matthew Neely by 6,000 votes (1922).West Virginia History OnView