The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Mary Ella Ridle's Campaign for State Assembly, 1912

Mary Elizabeth Lease's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1888

Larned, M. Calista

M. Calista Larned was elected County Superintendent of Schools for Champaign County, Illinois. She served from 1877-1881. Larned's daughter, Mary Larned Parsons, was a suffrage supporter and worker in Kansas by the 1890s.

M. E. Johnson's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1884

Lease, Mary Elizabeth

Mary Elizabeth Lease was a political activist interested in women's issues, labor and farmer's rights, temperance, and Irish nationalism. Lease was active in public affairs and social reform from the 1870s onward. She was known as an asser…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Campaign for U.S. House of Representatives, 1866

M. Calista Larned's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1877

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton initiated the call for a woman's rights meeting at Seneca Falls, New York. The members of this historic convention issued the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, among them the demand for woman suffrag…