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Women in Colorado won full suffrage in 1893. Immediately thereafter they increased their involvement in state party politics and sought leadership positions in the local party organizations. In 1898 state campaigns pitted Republicans against a fusion party ticket (Silver Republicans, Democrats, and Populists). Frances S. Lee, from Denver, Arapahoe County, was one of several women in that year who campaigned for, and won, state office. She was elected to the state House of Representatives as a Democrat assuming, according to local historian Joseph G. Brown, some of the "privileges, prestige and the power" male politicians were so unwilling to divide with women. Lee was elected to the State House again in 1912.
