How Women Figure in Primary Contests

Elinor Byrns' Campaign for U.S. House of Representatives, 1918

Dougherty, Katherine A.

Katherine A. Doughtery ran for the office of State Committee in 1918.

Katherine A. Dougherty's Campaign for State Committee, 1918

Witherspoon, Frances M.

Frances Witherspoon twice ran for political office on the Socialist ticket. In 1918 she was an unsuccessful candidate for the U. S. House of Representatives from New York's 15th district. Witherspoon ran the next year for the New York St...

Michael, Hattie B.

Hattie B. Michael was the Democratic and Socialist parties candidate for State Assemblyman from Ulster County, New York in 1918. She lost to the Republican and Prohibition party candidate Both candidates were also listed as having no party.

Byrns, Elinor

Elinor Byrns participated in the first of five campaigns in 1918 when she ran on the Socialist ticket in the hope of representing Congressional District 11 in the U.S. House of Representatives. She campaigned for the position again in 19...

Helen F. McKelvey's Campaign for State Senate, 1918

Clara A. Rodger's Campaign for County Clerk, 1918

Rodger, Clara A.

Clara A. Rodger, a Republican, ran for the office of County Clerk in 1918 in Queens County, New York. She received a temporary appointment to the position, in order to finish the incumbent clerk's term after he was sentenced for bigamy. ...

Olcott, Jane Louise

Jane Olcott campaigned as the sole Socialist candidate for a position on the Board of Aldermen in New York's 9th District in 1918. Jane Olcott was an avid supporter of women's rights, advocating women's suffrage and the right to use birt...