Mrs. Pauline Steinem

Steinem, Pauline Pearlmutter

Pauline Steinem, a veteran civic reformer in Toledo, Ohio, was possibly the first Jewish woman elected to political office in the United States. Steinem was nominated by a non-partisan group of women activists, for the Toledo school board in 1904. A coalition candidate, well-known in the city for her work in schools and reform for children, and as the leading officer of several women's organ...

Pauline Pearlmutter Steinem's Campaign for School Board Member, 1904

Rebecca Eames's Campaign for County Recorder, 1904