Fitzgerald, Susan Walker

Susan Walker Fitzgerald campaigned for a seat on the Boston School Committee in 1911. She did not win the race. Interested in politics from young adulthood, Fitzgerald had founded the Student Government Association while a student at Bryn Mawr College. She graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1889. Before running for the school board, Fitzgerald was active in civic reform and was a leader in the suffrage movement. She was the first Democratic woman elected to the Massachusetts House, winning a race in 1922.