From collection Candidates
In 1891 and 1893 Ada M. Bittenbender was a candidate for Supreme Judge of Nebraska. Bittenbender, a lawyer, practiced in Nebraska and before the U.S. Supreme Court. She was a suffragist and attorney for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. It was reported that she received 7,322 votes out of a total of 155,000 cast in the State in 1891, the largest vote in proportion ever given for the head of the prohibition ticket. In the 1893 election the candidates for the office of judge of the Supreme Court received votes as follows: T. O. C. Harrison, Republican, 72,032; Silas A. Holcomb, People's Independent, 65,666; Frank Irvine, Gold Democrat, 37,545; Ada M. Bittenbender, Prohibition, 6,357.
