Iowa, Legal and Political Status of Women in Iowa: An Historical Account of the Rights of Women in Iowa from 1838 to 1918,

Mary A. Work's Campaign for School Sub-director, 1880

Canfield, Abbie O.

Abbie O. Canfield was the Greenback Party candidate for County Superintendent of Public Schools for Monona County, Iowa in 1882. She came in third in a three-way race. The following year Canfield was nominated by the Greenback Party for th…

Belle Graham's Campaign for County Superintendent of Public Schools, 1876

Julia C. Addington's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1869

Addington, Julia C.

In 1869 Julia C. Addington was elected Mitchell County Superintendent of Schools in Iowa. Addington was among the first women in the nation to be elected to a county-wide political office. Women in Maine, Ohio, and Massachusetts had been e…

Fisher, Mary

In 1877 Mary Fisher was elected one of the three directors of the School Board in Frederica, Bremer County, Iowa.

Abbie O. Canfield's Campaign for County Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1882

Abbie O. Canfield's Campaign for State Superintendent of Instruction, 1883

Work, Mary A.

In 1880 Mary A. Work was unanimously elected sub-director in district no. 6, Delaware township, Polk County, Iowa. Soon after, she was made president of the board, the first woman, so far as known, to fill the position of president of a sc…

Mrs. C. A. Dunham's Campaign for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1889