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

Scovell, Sarah C.

Sarah Scovell ran as the Socialist party candidate in 1914 for Kansas State Treasurer and in 1918 for Kansas Secretary of State. She lost both times. In 1902 the Kansas Socialist party had committed itself to a program of revitalization wh…

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 in…

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

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 t…

Cora G. Lewis' Campaign for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1917

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.