From collection Candidates
Carlotta Archer was appointed as the County Superintendent of Schools for Mayes County, Oklahoma in 1908. She was elected to the office in 1910 and served until about 1926. Archer was one of the first Native Americans to be elected to office in the U.S. She had been educated at the Cherokee Female Seminary in Oklahoma and later attended the Monticello Seminary in Illinois. On returning to Oklahoma Archer, an accomplished musician, taught at the Cherokee Female Seminary. She was the first woman to be appointed to the Cherokee Board of Education. After leaving the Superintendent's position she worked for twenty years for the federal Indian Office, and then after leaving that position became the librarian of the public library in Pryor, Oklahoma.
