Upton, Harriet Taylor

In 1898 Harriet T. Upton was the first woman elected to the Warren, Ohio board of education. She served this body for many years, becoming its president. In 1926 she ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives. She was a lifelong Republican and became, in 1920, the first woman to serve on that party's executive committee. In 1922 Upton was quoted as saying that the Republicans "expect women's vote to swing elections." In 1928 she became an assistant state campaign manager for the party in Ohio. Harriet Upton was born in Ravenna Ohio. She married in 1884. She was an influential member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, elected treasurer in 1895. She was also active in the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, and twice elected its president. Upton authored books for children as well as histories of the Ohio region and the lives of U.S. presidents and their families. She was active in the temperance movement. She edited "The Progress" from 1902 to 1910. In addition to being elected as an officer of the national and Ohio suffrage associations, in 1912 and 1914 she served as the suffrage campaign manager in Ohio.