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Gertrude Jordan was the Treasurer of Cherry County, Nebraska some time before 1910. Jordan ran against Ernest Quible, then the current treasurer and defeated him. Quible refused to acknowledge Jordan's win, stating that as a woman and a non voter, she did not have the right to hold office. The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled in Jordan's favor, with all justices finding that women could hold elected offices for which they were not eligible to vote. Jordan was a high school graduate and taught in the Dodge City High School in 1897. In 1901 she became a homesteader with a 640 acre spread in Valentine, Nebraska. Before running for the office of treasurer, Jordan was recording clerk in the County Clerk's office and held the position of Deputy Treasurer.
