Nevada Suffrage Timeline

Susan Miller's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1890

Jennie A. Curieux's Campaign for County Recorder and Auditor, 1918

Jennie E. Wilcox's Campaign for County Recorder, 1916

Edna Caitlin Baker's Campaign for Board of School Trustees, 1916

Sadie D. Hurst's Campaign for State House of Representatives, 1918

Edna Caitlin Baker's Campaign for Board of Regents, 1918

Thankful Cooley's Campaign for School Board Visitor, 1902

Dory, Janet E.

Janet E. Dory was appointed to the County Commission of Lander County, Nevada in 1915, in place of her husband Peter, who died that year. At the next election Janet was elected in her own right to the seat and served for the additional t...

Taylor, Josephine

Josephine Taylor, a Republican, is elected as County School Superintendent for Elko County, Nevada in 1890. She is one of the first women in the state elected to a county-wide office. Before her election Taylor had been a teacher i...