The New York Red Book, 1920

Gillette, Dr. Elizabeth Van Rensselaer

In 1919, Dr. Elizabeth V. Gillette became the first woman from an upstate county to be elected to the New York State Assembly. This was her second bid for the office. Her victory was the first time in seventeen years that Schenectady Cou...

Griffin, Kate T.

In 1919, Kate T. Griffin ran for the State Assembly in the first district of Dutchess County, New York on the Democratic ticket. She lost the election to her Republican opponent, J. Griswold Webb.

Smith, Marguerite L.

At the age of 25 Marguerite L. Smith became the youngest member of the New York State Legislature. Running on the Republican ticket in 1919, Miss Smith represented the nineteenth district of New York County in the State Assembly. She rec...

Kost, Sadie

Sadie Kost ran for the 22nd Congressional District in New York in 1918 as a Republican. She lost to the Democratic candidate, in a heavily Democratic district, but received more votes than two other opponents, a Socialist and a Prohibiti...