From collection Candidates
Mary M. Lewis was the Democratic candidate for County Superintendent of Schools in Ouray County in 1904. She was a local widow who had taught in the schools and then worked with her husband in their dairy business in the county. After his death Lewis worked in government office jobs. One newspaper reported that Lewis had been endorsed by 250 women voters in the county irrespective of party. Lewis sought the party nomination again in 1906, but the Democrats supported another county teacher, Anna L. Stanley, instead. Lewis was elected to the county and city school boards. By the following year Lewis and her family had moved to Denver.
