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Ida Belle Wise was the Prohibition Party candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Iowa, in 1906. She did not win the race. Wise served as president of the Iowa Woman's Christian Temperance Union and later the National presidency. She was also an ordained minister, but did not ever serve in that capacity. In addition to her temperance work Wise supported woman suffrage and work in child welfare. Known for her work on legal issues for children in Iowa, President Hoover appointed Wise to White House Conference on Child Health and Protection in 1930.
Wise married twice, and after the death of her first husband, James A. Wise, she married in Malcolm Smith in 1912. Although in most public capacities she was known as Ida B. Wise, she also used the name Ida B. Wise Smith.
Wise married twice, and after the death of her first husband, James A. Wise, she married in Malcolm Smith in 1912. Although in most public capacities she was known as Ida B. Wise, she also used the name Ida B. Wise Smith.
