Hannah B. Morse's Campaign for City Council, 1888

Morse, Hannah B.

Hannah P. Morse was elected in 1888 to the Oskaloosa, Kansas town council. This was an historic election as the mayor and all of the town council members were women. By one account, after the success of Susanna Salter's term as mayor of Argonia, Kansas (including positive news reports about Salter), Dr. J.W. Balsley of Oskaloosa came up with the idea of "petticoat government" in his town. He...