Betty Wakeman Mitchell's Campaign for Assembly, 1918

Mitchell, Betty Wakeman

Betty Wakeman Mitchell campaigned in the Republican Party primaries to represent Washington County, New York in the Assembly in 1918. Her platform emphasized improvements on "home governance" and labor laws for farmers and factory workers. Before her campaign, Mitchell was told by the members of her party that she could not garner 20 of 390 signatures necessary to file her petition to repres...