From collection Candidates
Susan Currier graduated from Oberlin College in 1895, after which she returned to Washington State. She taught in Olympia, Washington from 1895 to 1896, was a school principal the following year. In 1896 she was elected to her first term as Superintendent of Schools in Skagit County, serving from 1897 to 1903. She married in 1902, and, with her husband, published and edited the Mt. Vernon Argus. Currier lectured and advocated temperance and suffrage. She was a member of the State Library Commission, and was an advocate of the circulating library movement. She was an active member of the National Education Association. Currier is listed as single because she was single at the time of her elections. She married in 1902, and added the last name "Ornes" then.
