Grace D. Bradshaw was elected Superintendent of Schools for Pocahontas County, Iowa. She served three terms from 1913 until at least 1920. Bradshaw was an officer of the Iowa state Teachers Association.
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...
Carrie A. Bassett was elected Superintendent of Common Schools for Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa in 1871. She was a teacher in the county and after her one term in office continued to work at the teachers' training institutes. By 189...
Bessie J. Bears ran for the office of Count Recorder of O'Brien County, Iowa in 1910. She was elected for a second term in 1912, and once more in 1914. Beers was the first woman in O'Brien County elected to public office.