Henry, Josephine K.

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 may have been the first woman in the South to run a campaign for a state-wide office. Henry was 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 joined the committee for Elizabeth Cady Stanton's book called The Woman's Bible.