The History of equal suffrage in Colorado, 1868-1898

Holly, Carrie Clyde

Carrie C. Holly was one of the first women elected to the Colorado House of Representatives. She was elected in 1894 and served for two years, representing Vineland, Peublo County. Holly was born in New York City and lived there until she moved West in 1889. She studied law with her husband, Judge Charles Holly, and they lived on a ranch at Vineland with their two daughters. The women of Col...

Lee, Frances S.

Colorado granted full suffrage to women in 1893. Immediately women increased their involvement in state party politics and won leadership positions in the local party organizations. State campaigns in 1898 pitted Republicans against a fusion party ticket (Silver Republicans, Democrats, and Populists). Frances S. Lee, from Denver, was one of several women who campaigned for, and won, state of...

Wright, Harriet G. R.

In 1898 Harriet Goodrich Rosenkrans Wright won office as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives (also called the General Assembly), running as a Populist on a fusion ticket. She served two years. She also served for four and one-half years as a member of the Board of Control of the State Industrial School for Girls. In 1912 Wright was a Democratic nominee for State Senate. Wright,...

Carrie Clyde Holly's Campaign for State House of Representatives, 1894

Clara A. Smith's Campaign for School Board Member, 1894

Harriet G. R. Wright's Campaign for State House of Representatives or Assembly, 1898

Harriet F. Noble's Campaign for State House of Representatives, 1898

Frances S. Lee's Campaign for State House of Representatives, 1893

Ida R. Veasey's Campaign for School Board Visitor, 1893

Frankie J. Perry's Campaign for Committeewoman, 1912