Kathy Karpan, former Wyoming secretary of state, dies

Joan Barron: Kathy Karpan – A Lifetime In Wyoming Politics

Columnist Joan Barron writes, ''Kathy Karpan, who died Friday in Cheyenne at the age of 83, was a competitor in the arena of Wyoming politics for most of her adult life.''

Kathy Karpan, former Wyoming secretary of state, dies

Kathy Karpan, longtime public servant, attorney and former Wyoming secretary of state, died Friday in Cheyenne at the age of 83.  Karpan’s tenure from 1987 to 1995 in the second-highest statewide office was part of a 40-year span in which Wyoming voters elected women to the position that oversees elections and business registrations, among other things.  While part of an Equality State tradition, Karpan also blazed a trail all her own as the fir…