Evolution Toward Equality: Equality for Women in the American West

Sarah M. Severance's Campaign for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1890

Mary A. Garrett's Campaign for Justice of the Peace, 1902

Mary E. Shane's Campaign for County Superintendent of Public Schools, 1894

Mary E. Smith's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1896

Garrett, Mary Agnes

Mary A. Garrett was a justice of the peace in Laramie, Wyoming, elected first to the office in 1902. The Garrett Post Office was established in December 1898 with Mary A. Garrett as its first postmaster. Garrett was a "stockwoman" running …

Severance, Sarah M.

Sarah M. Severance campaigned for the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction of California in 1890. Severance ran on the Prohibition ticket, and received over 6,400 votes. She was the first woman in the state to run for this …