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Bleakman, Ida Cupon
Ida Bleakman (neÈ Cupon) was elected County Treasurer in Hardman, Morrow County, Oregon in 1918. She was married to county politician G.A. Bleakman, a Republican, who was nominated to run for county commissioner in 1922. The magazine Ore...
Addition, Lucia Faxton
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.
Biede, Gertrude
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...
Andersen, Hulda
Hulda Andersen served as the Treasurer for the city of Nehalem, Oregon in Tillamook County in 1918.
Bailey, Elmetta
Elmetta Bailey was elected County School Superintendent for Baker County, Oregon in 1916. She was one of the first two women elected in the county.
Baird, Bessie
In 1916 Bessie Baird ran for the Oregon House of Representatives in Wallowa County as a Socialist, and lost. Baird had been involved in the Socialist movement in Wallowa since at least 1907, and said that she was the only woman Socialist...
Boswell, Mary
Mary Boswell was a candidate for County Clerk, on the Independent ticket, in Baker County, Oregon in 1918. She lost the race by one vote.
Alley, Corinne C.
Corinne C. Alley was the treasurer of Roseburg, Oregon in 1918.
Althouse, Sadie
In 1914 Sadie Althouse ran a campaign for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives as a Socialist. She lost.
