Mrs. Maggie Ginn was elected to the Board of Education in Bellfontaine, Ohio in 1919. Ginn was the daughter of Eliza Richardson and Dr. Watson. Her father was a noted physician in the County. The family lived in Wyandot County until they...
Edna Gray was nominated to the Prohibition ticket for County Prosecuting Attorney in Hillsboro, Ohio in 1893. The suffragette publication The Woman's Column, edited by Alice Stone Blackwell, reported that she was the first woman to recei...
In 1894 Ohio enacted a statute for the first time permitting women to vote in local school board elections. In the April 1895 election Mrs. Eliza Carruthers of Xenia was one of two candidates nominated by religious women with the goal of...
In 1913 Dora Sandoe Bachman became the first woman elected to the school board in Columbus, Ohio. Bachman eventually became president of the school board.
In 1919, Mrs. Thomas W. Inglis was re-elected to the Youngstown Board of Education. She was one of three women serving on the board after her re-election.
Mary Edith Campbell was the first woman elected to the Cincinnati, Ohio board of education, 1911-? Campbell was also the first president of Woman's City Club of Greater Cincinnati. She was a charter member of the Juvenile Protective Asso...
Margaret Chalfant was elected to the School Board of Bellefontaine, Ohio in 1895. Chalfant won by a majority of 827 votes, the largest margin in the history of the city. She was the Republican nominee for the seat. Chalfant was a dedicat...