Trumper, May

In 1916 May Trumper was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Montana, for a term to run from 1917 to 1921. She was re-elected to serve in that post until 1932. In her capacity as state superintendent, she also served on important boards, such as the Lands Board. Previously, she had been elected four times, from 1907 to 1915, as Flathead Courty, Montana superintendent of schools. Early in her tenure as the head of the state superintendent, the Montana legislature passed a law providing "equal pay for equal work for men and women." Trumper was born in Ohio and began higher education there at the Granville College. She moved to Montana in 1899. While serving as county superintendent, she attended summer classes as Harvard Summer school and completed her bachelor's degree, in 1917, at Columbia Univerity. Trumper engaged, also, in occasional writing.