Mrs. L. Benham served on the council of the city of Copperfield, Oregon in 1918. The five person council had another woman, Mrs. S. Fitch serving on it at the same time.
Addition ran for the Oregon House of Representatives in 1914 from Multnomah County on a Prohibition ticket and lost. She had been active in the Prohibition movement since at least 1900. Addition supported women's suffrage.
Zella Brownell was elected to the city council of Umatilla, Oregon in 1918. She served under a woman mayor, Stella Paulu, and with several other women officers.
Gertrude Biede was elected City Recorder in Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon in 1918. She was the first woman in the history of Oregon state to hold elected office in the city of Ashland and served in the position as late as 1933. She die...
Myrtle Blakely ran for County Treasurer as a Republican candidate in Jackson County, Oregon in 1916. She subsequently won the election and served a two-year term from 1917 to 1919. In 1920, the Oregon Voter reported in its article 'Polit...