One Woman's Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875-1930

Barnard, Kate

Kate Barnard helped draft the Oklahoma Constitution, ensuring provisions requiring school attendance, state support for widows, bans on child labor, laws on working conditions, and protections for union members. She also ensured that the constitution create a Department of Charities and Correction. The Constitution was ratified in 1907, and in that year, Barnard was elected to be the first C...

Kate Kane Rossi's Campaign for City Police Chief, 1911

Kate Barnard's Campaign for State Commissioner of Charities and Correction, 1907

Mrs. L. J. Wilson's Campaign for County Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1907