From collection Candidates
In 1920 Josephine Bennett campaigned in Connecticut on the Farm-Labor ticket for a seat in the U.S. Senate, one candidate in a field of six. The Republican incumbent was re-elected. He and the Democratic candidate garnered 96.4% of the total vote. Bennett polled only 2,057 votes. Bennett is described as being associated with "a wide range of progressive causes." She was married to wealthy Hartford lawyer M. Toscan Bennett. In 1919 Bennett and ten other women were briefly jailed in the District of Columbia after burning a copy of one of President Woodrow Wilson's speeches in front of the White House. She spent a short time in a District of Columbia jail with other prominent members of the suffrage movement.
