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Kitty Ostermeyer, a Populist was elected County Superintendent of Schools in Ravalli County, Montana in 1896. Two years later she ran for re-election endorsed by the Silver Republicans and Peoples party, but lost to the Democratic candidate. Ostermeyer ran successfully in 1900 as the Peoples party candidate. She served through at least 1904. An alternate spelling of Ostermeyer's first name appears in later records as "Kittie."