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In 1912 Estelle Lawton Lindsay was Socialist party candidate for the State House of Representatives in California. The following year she was the Socialist party candidate for the Los Angeles City Council. Lindsey lost but was elected in 1915 as an independent candidate. During her time on the city council Lindsay was active in women's rights and labor issues. According to her biographer Sherry Katz: "As a leader of three social welfare committees [Lindsay] championed public health measures, pressed enforcement of the state's anti-prostitution law, fought for greater city services for impoverished women, and secured the appointment of several female deputies assigned to investigate crimes against women and children." She also pushed for "improvements in the wages and working conditions of municipal employees and fought the municipal employment bureau's attempt to furnish strikebreakers to private employers." In 1914 Lindsey was a candidate the State Assembly from the 61st District. She was nominated by the Socialist Party and endorsed by the Central Labor Committee, and a non partisan group of club women. Lindsey did not win that race. Lindsey saw the election of women to office as a natural extension of woman suffrage, and that there "should be women in the legislature to represent the sex". She was re-elected in 1917.
