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Estelle Lawton Lindsay was the first woman elected to the Los Angeles City Council. She was the Socialist party candidate in 1913. She lost her re-election bid in 1915. 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."
