Twenty-first Biennial Report of the Secretary of State, State of Kansas, 1917-1918

Verna D. Waterman's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1916

1917 and 1918

Ella Seckerson's Campaign for County Superintendent, 1898

Warning, Elizabeth

In 1918 Elizabeth Warning, a Democrat, ran in a field of several candidates for the position of Kansas Superintendent of Public Instruction. She was the Democratic nominee, losing to Republican Lizzie E. Wooster. Warning was an alumna of...

Michels, Mrs. L. G.

Michels, the Socialist party candidate, ran unsuccessfully in 1918 for the office of Kansas Treasurer of State.

Grover, Emma W.

Emma W. Grover was the Prohibition party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from the 3rd District of Kansas in 1914. Grover did not win the race.

Harding, Eva

Eva Harding was the Democratic candidate for the School Board in Topeka, Kansas in 1909. In 1916 she was the party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas. The New York Times reported that Harding had "shied her bonnet ...

Lewis, Cora G.

Cora G. Lewis was the Democratic candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in Kansas in 1917. She didn't win. Lewis had served on the state Board of Educational Administration.

Olivia Milby's Campaign for County Superintendent, 1906

Sibbitt, Mary

Sibbitt ran in the August 1916 primary as well as the general election, for the office of Kansas Secretary of State. She was a Quaker referred to as "Reverend," and a temperance activist often called "the Kansas Cyclone." Sibbitt ran suc...

Cora Hill's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1889