From collection Candidates
Mrs. W.E. Clifford contested elections for the post of trustee of the Board of Education in Evanston,Illinois in 1892 and lost. She contested elections on a ticket proposing Mrs. Gertrude Singleton as president, and Mrs. W.E. Clifford and Mrs. Isabella A.H. Prindle for trustees in the school board elections held on April 16th, 1892. They lost by a majority of 387 to a ticket headed by Mr. H.C.C. Miller for president. 1,312 people voted in the election, of which half were women. Clifford also served as the president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Evanston.