Saylor, Anna L.

In 1918 Mrs. Anna L. Saylor of Berkeley, California ran for the state assembly (41st district) from Alameda County. She won her party's nomination with nearly sixty percent of the vote. She then won the general election, where she was also the nominee of the Democratic, Progressive, and Prohibition parties (state law permitted a candidate to cross-file with more than one party). She campaigned on a "win-the-war" and prohibition platform. She was re-elected four times. She chaired the Public Morals committee and was a member of several other assembly committees including public charities and corrections, prisons and reformatories, hospitals and asylums, education, and constitutional amendments. In her successful 1920 re-election campaign, Saylor ran against Democrat Roma Mildred Burnett. Saylor was championed by Assembly Speaker Clement C. Young who later, as governor, appointed her to the Governor's Council.