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Hawley, Antoinette A.
Antoinette Hawley was a candidate for positions in Colorado between 1896 and 1906. She ran for state representative from Arapahoe County, in 1896. Five years later she ran for Mayor of Denver, Colorado on the Prohibition Party ticket, 1901. She received over 500 votes. One source reported that the entire party ticket was composed of women. In 1904 Hawley was a Prohibition Party candidate for...
Lafferty, Alma V.
Alma V. Lafferty was elected to the State House of Representatives of Colorado in 1908. She was re-elected for a second term in 1910. Lafferty ran for the State Senate in 1912, as a nominee in the Democratic primary. She did not win the nomination for the general election. Lafferty was Chairman of Committee on Education, a member of Committees on Appropriations, Judiciary, and State institut...
Ruble, Alice M.
Alice M. Ruble was elected to the Colorado State House in 1902. She was the only woman to serve in the Colorado legislature that year. By 1900 Ruble was active with the Teller Silver Republican party in Denver, but by 1902 she was a Democratic candidate for a seat in the state house. Ruble had been active in the state suffrage associations and served as an officer of the Denver Woman's Club....
Robinson, Helen Ring
Helen Ring Robinson, journalist and lecturer, ran in Colorado's 1912 Democratic primary for the office of state senate. She won the primary with 4,665 votes, and then the general election, becoming the first or second woman in the United States to hold this state office. The term of office was four years (1913-1917). Her policy interests were many. She was appointed chair of the Senate's Edu...
