Wixson, Helen M. Marsh

Helen M. Wixson was the Republican candidate for Colorado State Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1910. She ran against four other candidates and won with 109,000 votes, seven thousand more than the second highest vote getter, Democrat Mrs. Katherine M. Cook. Two years later, in 1912, Wixson ran as the incumbent and lost to Mary C.C. Bradford, a Democrat, by 30,000 votes in a field of five candidates. Another Republican woman received the nomination to run in 1914 but in 1916 Wixson tried to regain the position, running against Bradford (who had 142,834 votes) and Socialist party candidate Mary Hotz Blakeley (with 15,441 votes) but her 107,310 were not sufficient to beat Bradford. Helen Marsh Wixson was born in Musola, Wisconsin March 18, 1857. In 1886 she married Elmer Wixson. They had a long marriage but no children. She died in the East in 1925.