An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870-1920

Emmeline B. Wells' Campaign for State Senate, 1896

Wells, Emmeline B.

In 1896 Utah Republican Emmeline B. Wells, a noted leader, ran for the office of state senator. She did not win. Wells became a Mormon at the age of fourteen while still living in the east (after her mother's conversion). She moved to Utah…