A Woman Candidate for Governor

Phelps, Naomi McDonald

Naomi M. Phelps was the Prohibition nominee for State Auditor of Idaho in 1898. Two years later the party nominated her for the office of County Representative. Phelps was a well-known evangelist and poet in her adopted state of Idaho. She…

Johnson, Mary C.

Mary C. Johnson, from Idaho Falls was the Prohibition nominee for governor of Idaho in 1898, and received 3% of the vote.

A. Phelps' Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1873

Mary C. Johnson's Campaign for Governor, 1898