From collection Candidates
Nellie Trent Bush was a candidate for school trustee in Arizona in 1916. She was elected as Justice of the Peace in Parker, Arizona two years later. Bush went on to be elected to the Arizona state legislature in 1920 and served for 14 years as a representative and 2 years in the state senate. Bush was highly supportive of women in politics and she was reported as saying" "Certainly I believe that a woman can be a success, both as a politician and a mother. I'm here to prove it." In 1936 Bush ran for the U.S. Congress, but was defeated. . . . I am a firm believer in women going into politics, the more the better."
