Lee Maddox Campbell was the first woman to run for County Superintendent of Schools in Anderson County, Kentucky. She campaigned in 1913, the first year women were eligible for election to the office in Kentucky. The Clerk of Anderson re...
Josephine K. Henry was the Prohibition Party candidate for the office of Clerk of the Court of Appeals, in Kentucky in 1890 and 1894. Henry did not win these races. She was also named as a candidate for State Superintendent of Instructio...
Nannie R. Catlett served as the Superintendent of County Schools in Caldwell County, Kentucky from 1898 to 1902 and from 1902 to 1906. Records also name her as Superintendent in 1910.
Mrs. Frances Emiline Beauchamp campaigned on the Prohibition ticket for Kentucky's Secretary of State in 1895. Beauchamp was a noted leader in Kentucky's Temperance Movement, the Assistant Recording Secretary of the National WCTU, Presid...
Kate Edgar served as Superintendent of County Schools in Bourbon County, Kentucky from 1894 to 1898 and from 1898 to 1902. Edgar's opponent was William E. Williams, also a Democratic.
In 1913, Mrs. Fred Currey teamed up with Mrs. Letcher Riker to campaign for two spots on the Board of Directors of the graded school in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Mrs. Fred Currey ran against H.C. Smith, while Riker faced George Bohn. While ...
Miss Mary Burkhart was nominated on the Prohibition ticket in Kentucky's tenth district for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1902. At the time of the election, women had not been granted the vote in Kentucky. She ran under a platform...