Women School Directors [Civic Club Bulletin, April 1909]

Jurist, Louisa S.

Louisa S. Jurist was elected to the School Committee of the Forty-Seventh Ward in Philadelphia in 1909. She may have been the first Jewish women elected to any office in Philadelphia. Two years later Jurist was again a candidate, nominated…

O'Harra, Margaret S.

Margaret S. O'Harra was elected to the School Committee of the Forty-Sixth Ward in Philadelphia in 1909.

Anna D. Hamilton's Campaign for School Committee Member, 1909

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Margaret S. O'Harra's Campaign for School Committee, 1909

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Anne Hampton Todd's Campaign for School Committee, 1909

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Allen, Jane

Jane Allen was elected to the Twenty-Sixth Ward School Committee in Philadelphia in 1909. Allen was a teacher at the Girls High School in the city.

Hamilton, Anna D.

Anna D. Hamilton was elected to the School Committee of the Twenty-First Ward in Philadelphia in 1909.

Jane Allen's Campaign for School Committee, 1909

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Louisa S. Jurist's Campaign for School Committee, 1909

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Todd, Anne Hampton

Anne Hampton Todd was elected to the School Committee of Philadelphia's Eighth Ward in 1909.  Two years later she ran for re-election and was nominated by the Republican, Democrat, and Keystone parties. Todd was a graduate of Bryn Maw…