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Macon, Mary
Mary Macon was the president of the Colorado Women's Democratic Club, the first woman's club placed upon the membership roll of the National Association of Democratic Clubs. She was nominated in 1894 for regent of the state university in Colorado.
Matteson, Nellie E.
Mrs. Matteson was a Populist Party candidate for Colorado state legislature in 1894. Matteson was active in the woman suffrage movement on a national level.
Sheridan, Marian M.
Marian M. Sheridan was the People's Party candidate for Colorado state legislature in 1894.
Sanford, Amelia
In 1894, at the Prohibition Party convention, Mrs. Mary Metzgar nominated Sanford of Bloomington, Illinois for the position of trustee of the state university. Sanford's qualifications included past positions as professor at Adrian College and dean of the Woman's College of the Northwestern University. Sanford was editor/publisher of the Illinois Watch Tower and active in the Woman's Christi...
Stansbury, L. Meredith
L. Meredith Stansbury was nominated in 1894 for state assembly from Arapahoe County, Colorado. In that year she was the best known of the assembly candidates. The Woman's Journal described her as the "Ellis Meredith" of the Denver News. ("On the Eve of the Election," November 10, 1894). She was active in the woman suffrage movement and had testified before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S....
Morris, Ellen D.
In 1894 Ellen D. Morris, a resident of Kansas City, ran as a candidate for Missouri state superintendent of schools. She trained as a teacher and later worked for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Morris ran a poor third out of a field of four candidates, polling 3500 votes out of a half million ballots cast.
Tanner, F.M.
F.M. Tanner ran as a candidate for the state assembly in 1894 from Ft. Collins, Colorado.
Teetor, Sarah
Sarah Teetor was nominated in 1894 for Colorado state representative from Arapahoe County. In local Denver races in the following year she was the Prohibition candidate for City Auditor, but did not win.
Telford, Mary Jewett
Mary Jewett Telford, of Grand Junction, Colorado, was a leader of the state Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and a suffrage activist. As a delegate, she attended the national convention of the Prohibition Party, and in 1894 was nominated for the state assembly by members of the Prohibition Party from Mesa County. At the state party convention, however, she was selected to run as the...
