In 1874 arriet W. Paist was a Republican nominee School Director of the thirteenth ward school committee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After some opposition Paist was elected and served on the School Committee. Paist gave at least one p...
Emily Hallowell was a candidate for School Committee in Philadelphia in 1909. Hallowell was well known in Philadelphia educational circles. She had served on the Public Educational Commission in the 1890s. Her private school for girls wa...
Frieda S. Miller was one of the Labor Party candidates for Congressional Representative at Large in Pennsylvania in November of 1920. In 1918 Miller became the secretary to the Philadelphia branch of the Women's Trade Union League. She w...
Effie L. Bell was elected to the position of School Director for Perry County, Pennsylvania in 1909. Bell had first been appointed to the office to replace her husband when he died in 1907. She was the first woman in Perry County to be e...
Flora J. Diefenderfer was a Prohibition Party candidate for Congressman at large from Pennsylvania in 1920. Diefenderfer was nominated at the party convention in May of 1920, and ran again in the general election that November. She did n...
Annie B. Hall was elected to the School Committee of the Twenty-ninth ward in Philadelphia in 1892. She served one term. Hall was a physician practicing in the city and worked within the social settlement movement.
In 1895 Katharine Bement Davis was nominated by the Civic Club as a candidate for School Director of the fifth ward school committee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Davis was part of the College Settlement in the city. In 1914 Davis ran u...