From collection Candidates
Stella Courtright Stimson was elected to the Terre Haute, Indiana school board in 1909. She was one of three women candidates, and the only one who won a seat. Stimson was an active club woman. In 1913 and 1914, she and other reforming women became unofficial poll watchers trying to record illegal voting in the city elections. Their work led to federal prosecution and trial of some of the city's leading politicians.
