"Pauline Steinem, Dynamic Immigrant"

Steinem, Pauline Pearlmutter

Pauline Steinem, a veteran civic reformer in Toledo, Ohio, was possibly the first Jewish woman elected to political office in the United States. Steinem was nominated by a non-partisan group of women activists, for the Toledo school board in 1904. A coalition candidate, well-known in the city for her work in schools and reform for children, and as the leading officer of several women's organ...

Witcher, Margaret Zane

Margaret Zane Witcher was elected County Clerk of Salt Lake County, Utah in 1908. She acted as her own campaign manager. One of her first acts in office was to ban smoking in the County Clerk's office. She was elected to the office again in 1910. Rose L. Ward wrote a campaign song for Witcher's 1910 race which was sung at the Women's Republican Committee meeting in Salt Lake City. Witcher di...

Margaret Zane Witcher's Campaign for County Clerk, 1908

Margaret E. Brown's Campaign for County Superintendent of Instruction, 1908

Maria Mahlberg's Campaign for University Trustee, 1910

Marie Ackerman's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1912

Pauline Pearlmutter Steinem's Campaign for School Board Member, 1904

Rebecca Eames's Campaign for County Recorder, 1904