Jennie Richards' Campaign for School Board Member, 1899

Wade, May Burbank

In 1896 Mary Burbank Wade was elected mayor of Ellis, Kansas. Coming nine years after Susanna Salter's election in Argonia, Kansas, Wade, like the other now-numerous women holding city and county office, found that the national press sca...

C. J.. M. Sharon's Campaign for County Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1874

Rice, Emily S.

Emily S. Rice was elected Harper County ( Kansas) clerk in 1884 and served until 1888. Although Kansas was often progressive in matters of women's rights, since 1874 dissenters had challenged women's right to hold elective office. The qu...

Morse, Hannah B.

Hannah P. Morse was elected in 1888 to the Oskaloosa, Kansas town council. This was an historic election as the mayor and all of the town council members were women. By one account, after the success of Susanna Salter's term as mayor of ...

Sullivan, Lucy M.

In 1889 Lucy M. Sullivan was elected mayor of Baldwin, Kansas.

Mary C. Weida's campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1918

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Hannah B. Morse's Campaign for City Council, 1888

C. J.. M. Sharon's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1872

Mabel E. Wagner's Campaign for School Board, 1917