Operation Clean Sweep

Florence Brownell's Campaign for City Council, 1916

Helen Curtenius Statler's Campaign for U.S. House of Representatives (Michigan's Third Congressional District), 1920

Laura Stockton Starcher's Campaign for Mayor, 1916

Starcher, Laura Stockton

Laura Stockton Starcher was elected mayor of the small town of Umatilla, Oregon in 1916. She defeated the incumbent, her husband E.E. Starcher, by a vote of twenty-six to eight. In the same election, voters selected women for four of the s…