History of Colorado, vol. I

Alice M. Ruble's Campaign for State House of Representatives, 1902

Alma V. Lafferty's Campaign for State Senate, 1912

Lafferty, Alma V.

Alma V. Lafferty was elected to the State House of Representatives of Colorado in 1908. She was re-elected for a second term in 1910. Lafferty ran for the State Senate in 1912, as a nominee in the Democratic primary. She did not win the no…

Riddle, Agnes Ludwig

Agnes Riddle was a two-term member, 1910 -1914, of the lower house of Colorado's legislature.  In 1914 she ran unsuccessfully as the Progressive Party candidate for Secretary of State.  In the general election, which she lost, th…

Robinson, Helen Ring

Helen Ring Robinson, journalist and lecturer, ran in Colorado's 1912 Democratic primary for the office of state senate. She won the primary with 4,665 votes, and then the general election, becoming the first or second woman in the United S…

Alma V. Lafferty's Campaign for State House of Representatives, 1908

Etta Rummel's Campaign for County Superintendent of Instruction, 1908

Matteson, Nellie E.

Nellie E. Matteson was a Populist Party candidate for Colorado state legislature in 1894. Matteson was active in the woman suffrage movement on a national level.

Antoinette A. Hawley's Campaign for State Representative, 1896

Ruble, Alice M.

Alice M. Ruble was elected to the Colorado State House in 1902. She was the only woman to serve in the Colorado legislature that year. By 1900 Ruble was active with the Teller Silver Republican party in Denver, but by 1902 she was a Democr…