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Mary Van Meter Grice was a candidate for the Twenty-fourth Ward School Committee about 1906. She ran a second time for the school committee in 1909 and was not successful. However, Grice was appointed to the school committee to fill a suddenly vacated seat and ran again in 1911. The year she was nominated by the Republican party. Grice was a member of the Council for the National Educational Association, and president of the state Council of Mothers, and other educational organizations.
