En Sugawara

En Sugawara (菅原エン, 27 February 1900 – 16 February 1994) was a Japanese suffragist and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.

Biography
Sugawara was born in the village of Shibutami (now part of Ichinoseki) in 1900. She attended Iwate Prefectural Morioka Daini High School and later graduated from Mita International Junior and Senior High School in 1929. She also became a member of the Iwate Poets' Association.

After World War II, Sugawara joined the Japan Progressive Party. She was a JPP candidate in Iwate in the 1946 general elections (the first in which women could vote), and was elected to the House of Representatives. After the party merged into the Democratic Party, she ran unsuccessfully for the new party in Iwate 2nd district in the 1947 elections. She subsequently contested the 1949 elections as an independent candidate, but failed to be elected.

She died in 1994.