Addington, Julia C.

In 1869 Julia C. Addington was elected Mitchell County Superintendent of Schools in Iowa. Addington was among the first women in the nation to be elected to a county-wide political office. Women in Maine, Ohio, and Massachusetts had been elected in the previous decade, including Olive Rose of Maine, to a county wide office in 1853.

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Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1872 [U.S. Bureau of Education]

Male voters elect Julia Addington as County Superintendent of Schools for Mitchell County, Iowa. She is the second woman in the US to be elected to a county-wide office.