From collection Candidates
Adeline M. Swain campaigned for County Superintendent of Public Instruction for Monona County, Iowa in 1880. She came in second in a field of four candidates. Three years later Swain was nominated for State Superintendent of Public Instruction by the Greenback Party, being the first woman nominated for a State office in Iowa. In 1884 Swain was chosen a delegate from Iowa to the National Convention of that party held ut Indianapolis to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President. She spent over forty years working with state and national suffrage associations.
