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![Kost, Sadie](https://cdn1.historyit.com/iiif/2/5edfd98ccc4f69.54593064/661045ad6369f6.59890100.jpg/full/360,/0/default.jpg?no_errors=1)
Sadie Kost ran for the 22nd Congressional District in New York in 1918 as a Republican. She lost to the Democratic candidate, in a heavily Democratic district, but received more votes than two other opponents, a Socialist and a Prohibitionist.