Frances S. Lee's Campaign for State House of Representatives, 1893

Lee, Frances S.

Colorado granted full suffrage to women in 1893. Immediately women increased their involvement in state party politics and won leadership positions in the local party organizations. State campaigns in 1898 pitted Republicans against a fusion party ticket (Silver Republicans, Democrats, and Populists). Frances S. Lee, from Denver, was one of several women who campaigned for, and won, state of...