From collection Candidates
Pamela C. Hale was elected County Superintendent of Schools for Thurston County, Washington in 1882, on the Peoples Party ticket. Two years later she ran again, this time as the Democratic Party candidate for the same office. Hale, and the rest of the Democratic ticket was not elected. Most of the Democrats running had been Peoples Party members. In 1886, Hale ran again as a Democrat, and although most of the ticket did not win their races, Hale was re-elected as County Superintendent of Schools. She faced Ellen T. Stork in this race. Hale did not run in the next three elections, but campaigned once more in 1894 as the Democratic Party candidate. Once again only Republican candidates were elected. Mrs. Hale served as the vice president, and later Treasurer, of the Olympia, Washington woman suffrage organization.
