Mary G. Brewer ran for the New York State Senate as the Socialist candidate from Staten Island. On September 1, 1918, The New York Tribune profiled her in a feature on women candidates in the then-upcoming election. The New York Tribune ...
Grace Campbell campaigned for the 19th District seat in the New York State Assembly in 1919 and 1920. She did not win either race, but received about 10% of the vote both years. Campbell may have been the first African American woman in ...
Ella Boole, who lived in New York, was a leader of the American temperance movement. She campaigned as a Presidential Elector in New York state in 1916 on the Prohibition ticket. In the summer of 1920 she unsuccessfully challenged James ...
Clarice Margoles Baright was was a candidate for delegate at large for the Democratic National Convention from New York in 1920. She was a New York City lawyer prominent in public life. She was born in Austria and immigrated to the U.S. ...
Bertha Berbert was elected School Commissioner for Westchester, New York. She was the first woman elected to this position in the county. Berbert served from 1899-1905. One source reported that because of the fame of her political campai...