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In 1914, Belle Israels (later Belle Moskowitz) ran unsuccessfully in the general election on the Progressive Party ticket for senatorial district delegate to the 1915 New York state constitutional convention. She was nominated at a meeting of the "Women's Committee of the State of New York for Representation in the Constitutional Convention." The meeting was chaired by Lillian Wald. Neither the Republican nor the Democratic state convention endorsed Israels who did, however, receive the endorsement of the Westchester Progressive Party. She finished ninth in a field of fifteen, winning 1,010 votes. In general, New York State Progressive Party candidates did not do well in the 1914 election. Belle Lindner was born in New York City in 1877, and attended local schools including a year at Columbia University's Teachers College. She was a social worker at Educational Alliance on New York's Lower East Side. She married Charles Israels in 1903. They had four children. He died in 1911. Three years later, she married Henry Moskowitz, a settlement worker who shared her reform concerns and with whom she worked investigating the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. In 1918, Belle Moskowitz supported Al Smith for New York State governor and became one of his most important advisers. Smith ran for U.S. president in 1928 on the Democratic Party ticket. Belle Moskowitz was his campaign manager and, later, press agent.
