Women in Office [Wichita Beacon, August 16, 1910]

Barnard, Kate

Kate Barnard helped draft the Oklahoma Constitution, ensuring provisions requiring school attendance, state support for widows, bans on child labor, laws on working conditions, and protections for union members. She also ensured that the...

Biggers, Kate H.

In 1911 Kate Biggers failed to win election as the Republican party candidate for Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections. She garnered 91,707 votes but Democrat Kate Barnard won with 120,703. Socialist candidate Winnie E. Bra...

Branstetter, Winnie E.

In 1911 Winnie Branstetter campaigned as a Socialist party candidate for state commissioner of charities and corrections. Three women competed for the position. Democrat Kate Barnard won with 120,703 votes. Branstetter came in third with...

O'Hare, Kate Richards

Kate Richards O'Hare was a Socialist party activist who ran for Commissioner of Charities and Corrections in Oklahoma in 1907.  She faced two other women, Democrate Kate Barnard (who won), and Republican Hazel Tomlinson. O'Hare next...

Houston, Laura C.

Laura C. Houston was the Republican candidate for County Register of Deeds for Woodson County, Oklahoma in 1910. Houston had won the primary against another woman candidate, and faced a Democratic woman for the office in the general elec...

Laura C. Houston's Campaign for County Register of Deeds, 1910

Turner, Ruby

Ruby Turner was a Democratic candidate in the primary races for County Register of Deeds, Woodward County, Oklahoma in 1910. Turner lost the race to fellow Democrat Laura C. Houston. When Turner and two other female candidates announced ...

Ruby Turner's Campaign for County Register of Deeds, 1910

Weiglein, Mary J.

Mary J. Weiglein was the Republican Party candidate for County Register of Deeds in Woodward County, Oklahoma in 1904. In 1910 Weiglein faced a female democratic candidate in the race.  She had also served as postmaster of the area.

Mary J. Weiglein's Campaign for County Register of Deeds, 1904