Williams, Helen K.

Helen Williams ran for the office of lieutenant governor of California in the 1914 Republican primary. Her running mate was Captain John D. Fredericks. She won the support of the California Woman's Republican Club despite having previously been a Democrat. Williams was, at some point in the campaign cycle, disqualified from the race because she was a woman. Journalists Joseph and Charlotta Bass, among others, took up her cause. In her newspaper, the "California Eagle," Charlotta Bass declared the disqualification "blatant discrimination against women." Williams was publisher of the "Woman Citizen."