Women's Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues

Letitia P. Woelpper's Campaign for School Committee, 1874

Coupe, Mary E.

Mary E. Coupe, a Republican, was elected as County Superintendent of Schools for Island County, Washington in 1880. She won with just one vote over her Democratic rival, Julia Kinney. Coupe served for only one year and may have left the of…

Anna Bean's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1880

Witherspoon, Frances M.

Frances Witherspoon twice ran for political office on the Socialist ticket. In 1918 she was an unsuccessful candidate for the U. S. House of Representatives from New York's 15th district. Witherspoon ran the next year for the New York Stat…