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Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan was an educator in the schools of New York City. She was a peace activist from the beginning of World War I onward, and one of the founders and leaders of the War Resisters League, a secular pacifist organization. Hughan ran for several elected offices, all on the Socialist Party ticket. In 1915 she ran for Alderman of New York City, Secretary of State in 1918, and Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1920. Wallace continued to run for public offfice, campaigning for the U.S. House and Senate, and the New York State Assembly through seven races in the 1920s and 1930s. Hughan was also a founder of the Alpha Omicron Pi Fraternity at Barnard College. The Fraternity continues today dedicated to "Women Enriched through Lifelong Friendship."
