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Rose M. French ran for the position of School Director in San Francisco in 1892. French was active in the California state suffrage association and served as the chair of the literature committee. She was also a member of the U.S. delegation to the International Conference of Women for a Permanent Peace at The Hague in 1915. French again acted as a delegate to the second conference of this organization, when it renamed itself, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, in 1919.