Indiana

Eva M. Hollinger's Campaign for School Board, 1909

Julia C. Smith's Campaign for School Board, 1909

Stimson, Stella Courtright

Stella Courtright Stimson was elected to the Terre Haute, Indiana school board in 1909. She was one of three women candidates, and the only one who won a seat. Stimson was an active club woman. In 1913 and 1914, she and other reforming w...

Virginia Brooks' Campaign for School Board Member, 1912

Glenn, Anna L.

Anna L. Glenn was the Socialist Party candidate for Mayor of Crawfordsville, Indiana in 1917. She received 51 and did not win the race.

Julia Siegfried's Campaign for Circuit Court Judge, 1908

Anna L. Glenn's Campaign for Mayor, 1917

Gougar, Helen M.

Helen M. Gougar, a political activist and national suffrage leader, was the National Party faction candidate for Attorney General of Illinois, in 1896.  Gougar was the first woman in Indiana to run as a candidate for Prohibition int...

Elizabeth T. Stanley's Campaign for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1918

Brooks, Virginia

Virginia Brooks was elected to the Board of Education of West Hammond, Indiana in 1912. Brooks was active in numerous social reform initiatives, including immigration, temperance, anti-corruption, anti-vice, and city infrastructure refor...