The 'People's Joan of Arc' : Mary Elizabeth Lease, Gendered Politics, and Populist Party Politics in Gilded-Age America

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

Mary Elizabeth Lease's Campaign for U.S. Senate, 1892

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…