From collection Candidates
In 1914 Lizzie Shoemaker Sheldon ran for the position of Kansas State Supreme Court justice. She made a strong showing in the primary and received 156,000 votes in the general election but lost because the tally left her short of a plurality. In the campaign Sheldon said that a woman justice would be "the logical outgrowth of uniformity of education for the sexes." She was the first woman in Kansas to run for what was then an elected position. Sheldon was the mother of five when she graduated law school in 1900. She drafted the suffrage amendment that Kansas passed in 1912 giving women the right to vote and to hold office.
