Eliza Burt Gamble's Campaign for University Regent, 1909

Gamble, Eliza Burt

Eliza Burt Gamble was the Socialist Party candidate for University Regent in Michigan in 1909.  She did not win the race.  Gamble was a well known writer, using evolutionary theory to support rights for women.  She developed her theories through three books The Evolution of Woman (1894), The God-Idea of the Ancients (1897), and The Sexes in Science and Hist...