Voting Today Will Be Heavy

Kern, Jennie B.

In 1914 Jennie B. Kern ran in the November 3 general election as a Socialist party candidate for the Colorado House of Representatives from the city and county of Denver. She obtained 2,841 votes but lost. The following year Kern was a Socialist candidate for the Denver School Board.

MacPherson, Honora

Honora MacPherson was the Citizens party candidate for City Superintendent of Schools for Denver, Colorado in 1912. She won her race, with the rest of the Citizens party ticket that year.  In 1915 MacPherson was a candidate for the Denver School Board. In the 1890s McPherson had served as the assistant to the County Superintendent. After the courts ruled that Denver county and city offi...

Honora MacPherson's Campaign for School Board, 1915

Jennie B. Kern's Campaign for School Board, 1915

Bolles, Jenette H.

Jenette H. Bolles was a candidate for the School Board of Denver, Colorado in 1915. Bolles was endorsed by a coalition of women's groups in the city who wanted a progressive woman elected to the office. Bolles was a pioneering osteopathic doctor, founding the Western Institute for Osteopathy in 1897. She served as the first editor of the Journal of Osteopathy, and received awards from medica...

Jenette H. Bolles' Campaign for School Board, 1915