[Cuttnhorse]

By the way, after Wayne Hage's first wife died he met and married Helen Chenoweth, one of the first great conservative congresswomen from IDAHO.

There, fixed it.

[diogenes ghost]

"....from Idaho." and "There, fixed it."

Nope...you roont it.

Even mentioning the Idaho connection implies that she was not one of the first great conservative congresswomen on the national stage, only that she was one of the first in Idaho.

If you really wanted to put the state in, and leave the national implication in, you would insert "from Idaho" after her name and before the descriptive.