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In 1914 Bertha Howell Mailly was a Socialist Party Delegate at large to the New York Constitutional Convention. Three years later she ran as the Socialist candidate for New York State Senate in the 16th District in 1917. Mailly ran again on the Socialist Party ticket in 1919 for the state assembly from the twelfth district. In 1894, she earned a bachelor of philosophy degree from Cornell University, where she was also elected to the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. Mailly worked as the executive secretary for the Rand School of Social Science in New York. The students referred to her as "Mother" and prominent Socialist and Director of Education, Algernon Lee, as "Father." When the school graduated its largest class in 1919, the New York Tribune reported that, Mailly delivered the introductory speech.
