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In 1914 Lillian Wald ran unsuccessfully on the Progressive Party ticket for delegate at large to the upcoming New York State Constitutional Convention. She was nominated by the Women's Committee of the State of New York for Representation in the Constitutional Convention. The committee also nominated Dr. Katharine Bement Davis, Frances Kellor, and Josephine Goldmark for at large positions, and several women to represent senatorial districts including Belle Israels (Moskowitz). Wald was born in Cincinnati and raised in Rochester, New York. In 1891 she graduated from the New York Hospital school for nursing. She enrolled in the Woman's Medical College but withdrew to take up a career as a public health nurse and settlement leader, in particular, at the Henry Street settlement which provided visiting health care to the poor. With Florence Kelley, she and others founded the National Child Labor Committee. She worked against militarism.
