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Josephine K. Henry was the Prohibition Party candidate for the office of Clerk of the Court of Appeals in Kentucky in 1890 and 1894. Henry did not win these races. She was also named as a candidate for State Superintendent of Instruction in Kentucky in 1894. There was speculation in the press that Henry would be asked to run for U.S. President. She was one of the first women in the South to run a campaign for a state-wide office. Henry emerged as one of the leaders of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association and, in 1894, was elected as one of the auditors of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She was a member of the so-called "revising committee" for Elizabeth Cady Stanton's book,The Woman's Bible.
Henry was born in Newport Kentucky in 1846. In 1868 she married a former Confederate soldier and educator, Captain William Henry. They had one child who died in a railroad accident. She wrote extensively on the question of married women's property rights.
Henry was born in Newport Kentucky in 1846. In 1868 she married a former Confederate soldier and educator, Captain William Henry. They had one child who died in a railroad accident. She wrote extensively on the question of married women's property rights.
