Political History of Nevada

Keith, Mattie J.

Mattie (Matilda) J. Keith was the first woman elected to County Clerk of Elko County, Nevada in 1916. She campaigned on the Democratic ticket. Keith was born on Jun 1877 to Emma Keith. In the 1900 census, she was the oldest of at least fou…

I. H. Kent's Campaign for University of Nevada Board of Regents, 1916

Millar, Rita D.

Rita D. Millar, a Democrat, was elected as County Recorder of Mineral County, Nevada in 1916. Millar was born near 1885 in Hawaii to Alfred J. McCarthy. She was a widowed mother of three children; two boys and one girl.

Bain, Helen

Helen Bain was one of the first women to run for political office in Nevada. Bain was elected to Humboldt County's Gold Run District school board in 1882. This was seven years before the state constitution allowed women to run for school b…

Mattie (Matilda) J. Keith's Campaign for County Clerk, 1916

Kent, I. H.

I. H. Kent, of Fallon, campaigned for the University of Nevada Board of Regents in 1916 on the Socialist ticket. She ran against two other women: Republican, Edna Baker and Democrat, J. Fay McQuestian. Kent lost the election to her Republi…

Wilcox, Jennie E.

Jennie E. Wilcox, a Democrat, was elected Recorder of Lincoln County, Nevada on the Democratic ticket in 1916.

J. Fay McQuestian's Campaign for Board of Regents, 1916

McQuestian, J. Fay

Democrat, J. Fay McQuestian ran for the University of Nevada Board of Regents in 1916. She was opposed by two other women: Republican, Edna Baker and Socialist I.H. Kent. Baker won the election and thus became the first woman to hold state…

Baker, Edna Caitlin

In  1916 Edna Caitlin Baker was elected to the school board of Sparks, Nevada. Later that same year she became the first woman to elected to a statewide office in Nevada. Baker was nominated to the Republican ticket, unopposed, and ca…