The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for 1915

Mollberg, Marie

In 1904 Marie Mollberg ran as a Socialist Labor candidate for the position of University of Illinois Trustee. Mollberg ran again for this office in 1910, 1912 (polling only 4,226 votes (0.12), and 1914, on the Socialist Labor ticket. She...

Regina Hepp Neebe's Campaign for University Trustee, 1910

Neebe, Regina Hepp

In 1910 Regina Neebe campaigned as a Socialist Labor candidate for the position of University of Illinois Trustee. She lost, polling only 2,566 votes ((0.10%). Fifteen individuals from many parties ran for the three available trustee pos...

Maude J. Ball's Campaign for Alderman, 1914

Orr, Ella M.

In 1896 Ella M. Orr campaigned unsuccessfully for University of Illinois Trustee on the Prohibition Party ticket. She polled 14,182 votes (o.43 percent of votes cast). Orr ran again for the office in 1914. She was a candidate on the Proh...

Ella M. Walling's Campaign for County Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1898

Mrs. M. K. Speck's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1892

Starr, Blanche

Blanche Starr [aka Mrs. Chandler Starr] was the Progressive Party candidate for University Trustee in Illinois in 1915. She did not win a seat. Starr was a prominent civil leader and club woman in Rockford, Illinois. She was also an orga...

Ella M. Orr's Campaign for University Trustee, 1896

Conger-Kaneko, Josephine

Josephine Conger-Kaneko was a Socialist Party candidate for University of Illinois Trustee in 1912. She ran for this office again in 1914, but was not elected in that race either. The same year she ran for Chicago Alderman from the Sixth...