Lavina Roberts's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1892

Roberts, Lavina

In 1894 Lavina Roberts ran an active, but unsuccessful, candidacy as the People's party nominee for Illinois state superintendent of public instruction. Roberts polled 22,557 votes. Earlier she had worked her way through the State Normal School, teaching alternate semesters to earn money for tuition. In 1892 she was an (unsuccessful) independent candidate for superintendent of schools for Pi...