Upon her return to office in 1921 Grinstead found three newly elected women to join her in the Lower House.  The four women became known as the Kansas Legisladies, thanks to a headline (pictured left) that ran in the Dearborn Independent.

Shortly after women were given the right to vote they began being elected to public office. Kansas was no exception. In fact Kansas was a front runner, having elected four women in  the 1921 race--putting them second only to the state of Connecticut who elected five that same year. When Minnie Johnson Grinstead returned to Topeka to begin her second term she was joined in the Lower House by Mrs. Ida M. Walker, Miss Nellie Cline, and Mrs Minnie J. Minnich.  The quartet gained nation wide notoriety thanks to an article written by Lillie Gilliland McDowell for the Dearborn Independent. McDowell, whose article was reprinted in newspapers

across the nation, referred to the four women as Legisladies.Kansas' Four Legisladies are Home-Makers points out, "At least two of the legisladies have judicial minds. One acquired hers by association with her lawyer husband. The other is a lawyer," (that would be Miss Cline; the article goes on to identify her by her father, G.Polk Cline, a prominent lawyer). The two remaining woman are both qualified, one being a journalist who, along with her husband, ran Real Westerner, and the other being well informed in the area of farming.