Grass Roots Socialism

Mary O'Reilly's Campaign for University Trustee, 1910

O'Reilly, Mary

In 1910 Mary O'Reilly first ran on the Socialist Party ticket for University of Illinois Trustee. She received 48, 896 votes (1.92 percent of votes cast), and did not win. O'Reilly was a party activist and lecturer. In 1910, with Nellie M.…