C. J. M. Sharon's Campaign for State Superintendent of Public Instruction

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C. J. M. Sharon's Campaign for State Superintendent of Public Instruction
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Sharon, Mrs. C. J. M.
Sharon, Mrs. C. J. M.
Mrs. C. Sharon was elected Marion County (Kansas) Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1872. She was re-elected in 1874. The state legislature had voted Kansas women school election suffrage in 1861. Sharon was one of several women who held this position in the early 1870s, making them among the first female officeholders in the United States.