Many Women Candidates for Election [San Francisco Examiner, July 28, 1919]

Jones, Charlotte F. [California]

Charlotte F. Jones ran for Judge of the Superior Court of California in 1914. Jones was a practicing attorney in San Francisco who was qualified to appear before the Superior Court.

Bernice Edgar's Campaign for State Assembly, 1914

Charlotte F. Jones' Campaign for Judge of the Superior Court, 1914

Kora Callaway's Campaign for State House of Representatives, 1918

Margaret Sternborg's Campaign for County Recorder, 1912

Saylor, Anna L.

In 1918 Anna L. Saylor of Berkeley, California ran for the state assembly (41st district) from Alameda County. She won her party's nomination with nearly sixty percent of the vote. She then won the general election, where she was also the …

Edgar, Bernice A.

Bernice A. Edgar ran for the State Assembly in California's seventieth district in 1914. She had been educated at the University of Michigan and was an active clubwoman. Edgar ran again for the State Assembly in 1918.  She did not win…

Callaway, Kora

Kora Callaway ran for the California state legislature, from the twenty-ninth district, representing San Francisco in 1918. Callaway received over 900 votes, but did not win election. Calloway was an educator and was born and raised in Mis…

Broughton, Esto B.

Esto B. Broughton was a lawyer who was elected the California state legislature, representing Stanislaus County, in 1918. She was one of the first four women elected to the California legislature that year. Broughton was re-elected once, b…

Kibbe, Dr. Minora E.

Dr. Minora E. Kibbe ran for school board in the San Francisco area in 1908. In 1914 she ran for the state assembly in Oakland, California. Kibbe practiced Health Care and Medicine in Oakland and San Francisco, working at the Chinese Clinic…