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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 of "Prohibition and the Golden Rule." Burkhart was the daughter of a wealthy lumberman from the County of Lone Wolf in Kentucky. The county was mostly mountainous area and Burkhart trecked the across trackless forests to canvas from house to house. When told that, even if she won enough votes, she would not be seated, Burkhart insisted that nothing would stop her from assuming her Congressional seat. Newspapers describe her as young, wealthy, and attractive.
