What is Marie Colton?
[[File:Marie Colton.jpg|thumb|Marie Colton]] '''Marie Watters Colton''' (October 20, 1922<ref>https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung&biw=412&bih=342&tbm=bks&ei=5wGrW63XDcvSwAKIvKGgCg&q=Marie+Watters+Colton+October+20%2C+1922&oq=Marie+Watters+Colton+October+20%2C+1922&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.12...4150.5560.0.6343.2.2.0.0.0.0.237.439.2-2.2.0....0...1c.1j2.64.mobile-gws-serp..0.0.0....0.JUyo72rTNGQ</ref> – September 25, 2018) was an American [[politician]]. She was born in [[Asheville, North Carolina]]. She represented the 51st district in the [[North Carolina House of Representatives]] from 1978 to 1994 as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]. Colton died at a retirement center in Asheville from [[congestive heart failure]] on September 25, 2018, aged 95.<ref>[https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/north-carolina/articles/2018-09-25/former-north-carolina-legislative-leader-colton-dies-at-95 Former North Carolina Legislative Leader Colton Dies at 95]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/c/Colton,Marie_Watters.html Inventory of the Marie Watters Colton Scrapbooks and Audiocassette, 1978-1994], in the Southern Historical Collection, [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|UNC-Chapel Hill]]. * Southern Oral History Program Interviews with Marie Watters Colton: [http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/sohp/id/9090 North Carolina Politics, October&nbsp;23, 1995]; [http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/sohp/id/11493 Southern Women: Women's Leadership and Activism, November&nbsp;24, 1994] {{DEFAULTSORT:Colton, Marie}} [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from congestive heart failure]] [[Category:State legislators of the United States]] [[Category:Politicians from North Carolina]] [[Category:People from Asheville, North Carolina]] [[Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians]] {{US-bio-stub}}