From collection Candidates
Clara A. Rodger, a Republican, ran for the office of County Clerk in 1918 in Queens County, New York. She received a temporary appointment to the position, in order to finish the incumbent clerk's term after he was sentenced for bigamy. Though she polled extremely well when she ran for the election, Rodger ultimately lost to a Democratic alderman. Clara A. Rodger was involved in the suffrage movement and acted as the Chairman of the New York City Woman Suffrage Party in 1918. Rodger graduated from Shepardson College in Granville, Ohio. She then moved to Connecticut, where she served as president of the Women's Club of Woodbury, CT. Later, she became a member of the Executive Committee of the Connecticut State Federation of Women's Clubs.
