Political Graveyard

Alexander, Edna Louisa

Susan Walker Fitzgerald's Campaign for School Board Member, 1911

Nadina Kavinoky's Campaign for State Treasurer, 1918

Carrie V. Hoff's Campaign for University Trustee, 1918

Olive M. Johnson's Campaign for University Trustee, 1904

Carrie W. McCauley's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1895

Fitzgerald, Susan Walker

Susan Walker Fitzgerald campaigned for a seat on the Boston School Committee in 1911. She did not win the race. Interested in politics from young adulthood, Fitzgerald had founded the Student Government Association while a student at Bry...

Kavinoky, Nadina

Nadina Kavinoky was a gyneacologist who wrote on women's sexual and reproductive health. She was active in the birth control movement of New York. In 1918 Kavinoky was the Socialist Labor candidate for New York State Treasurer. She did n...

Johnson, Olive M.

Olive M. Johnson ran for Illinois University trustee in 1904 on the Socialist Labor ticket, but did not win a seat on the board. In 1918 Johnson campaigned for the office of Governor of New York, in, as the Socialist-Labor party candidat...

Hoff, Carrie V.

Carrie V. Hoff was the Prohibition candidate for University of Illinois trustee in 1918. She did not win a seat.