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Lucretia Crocker was elected to the Boston (Massachusetts) School Committee in 1873. Crocker, and two other women elected that year, did not serve as their right to the position was questioned. The Massachusetts legislature specifically made women eligible to the office. Crocker and four other women were again elected to the School Committee in 1874 and served. Crocker was again elected in 1875. In 1876 Miss Crocker was elected as one of the supervisors of the public schools of Boston.
