A List of Nominations [Walsenburg World, Colorado, 1912]

Frances S. Lee's Campaign for State House of Representatives, 1893

Jones, Jennie

Jennie Jones, Prohibtion party candidate, campaigned for the State House of Representatives from Arapahoe County, Colorado in 1902. She was not elected. Jones ran again in 1912, on the Prohibition Party ticket for State Representative fr...

Lee, Frances S.

Colorado granted full suffrage to women in 1893. Immediately women increased their involvement in state party politics and won leadership positions in the local party organizations. State campaigns in 1898 pitted Republicans against a fu...

Jennie Jones' Campaign for State House of Representatives, 1902

Jennie B. McGehe's Campaign for State Supreme Court Judge, 1912

Miller, Mary E.

Mary E. Miller was a candidate for State Treasurer for the Prohibition Party in Colorado in 1902. Ten years later she ran for the U.S. Senate from Colorado in 1912. This race was also as the Prohibition Party candidate.

Robinson, Helen Ring

Helen Ring Robinson, journalist and lecturer, ran in Colorado's 1912 Democratic primary for the office of state senate. She won the primary with 4,665 votes, and then the general election, becoming the first or second woman in the United...

Disbrow, Alice E.

Alice E. Disbrow was a Progressive Party candidate for the State Assembly in Colorado, in 1912.

McMillen, Ida M.

Ida M. McMillen was a Socialist Party candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction for Colorado in 1912.

Laughlin, Gail

Gail Laughlin was a candidate for the Colorado State House of Representatives in 1910. For that race was endorsed by the Citizens party, the Platform party, the Progressives and the Prohibition party. She was a Progressive Party candidat...