Women in Nevada Politics

Baker, Edna Caitlin

Edna Caitlin Baker became the first woman to elected to a statewide office in Nevada in 1916. She was nominated to the Republican ticket, unopposed, and campaigned for a two year term to the office of the University of Nevada's Board of ...

Hood, Eunice Esther

Running unopposed, Eunice Hood became the second woman, following Edna Baker, to be elected to the University of Nevada's Board of Regents in 1918. She was one of the first women to be elected to a state office in Nevada. Hood did not ru...

Keith, Mattie J.

Mattie (Matilda) J. Keith was the first woman elected to County Clerk of Elko County, Nevada in 1916. She campaigned on the Democratic ticket. Keith was born on Jun 1877 to Emma Keith. In the 1900 census, she was the oldest of at least f...

Kent, I. H.

I.H. Kent, of Fallon, campaigned for the University of Nevada Board of Regents in 1916 on the Socialist ticket. She ran against two other women: Republican, Edna Baker and Democrat, J. Fay McQuestian. Kent lost the election to her Republ...

Jahn, Grace

Grace Jahn was elected to City Council in Lovelock, Nevada in 1919.

McQuestian, J. Fay

Democrat, J. Fay McQuestian ran for the University of Nevada Board of Regents in 1916. She was opposed by two other women: Republican, Edna Baker and Socialist I.H. Kent. Baker won the election and thus became the first woman to hold sta...