Nevada Suffrage Timeline

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

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

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 in …

Edna Caitlin Baker's Campaign for Board of Regents, 1916

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 ter…

Nettie Vaughan Gillmor's Campaign for County Recorder, 1918

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

Janet E. Dory's Campaign for County Commissioner, 1916

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

Terresa O'Donnell's Campaign for State Superintendent of Schools, 1916