Winona Taylor's Campaign for State Representative, 1894

Taylor, Winona Washburn

Winona Washburn Taylor was a Populist candidate for office in Sheridan County, Wyoming in 1894. She was the Socialist candidate for District Judge in the Eighth District of Colorado in 1906. In that race she came in last in a field of si...

Taylor, Winona

In 1894 Winona Taylor campaigned on the Populist Party ticket for the state legislature. Although women had voted in Wyoming since 1869, she was the first woman legislative candidate. Taylor did not win but in 1910 Mary G. Bellamy of Lar...