She’s A Winner!
- Post published:March 3, 2020
- Post category:Women
Tags: Women
LCHS
Lawrence County Historical Society
By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer)
A little more than a year after the 19th Amendment was passed and women won the right to vote, Lawrence County was faced with a first.
Nearly a dozen women became candidates in the 1921 election. The primary saw the largest enrollment of voters in the history of the county. A large percentage of the enrollment was made up of women. It caused quite a stir in political circles where it “had been presumed that the so-called ‘feminine vote’ would be more or less of a negligible quantity.”
The election resulted in many women winning seats as new directors on city and township school boards.
Wins included:
Photo: 1921 Winners of New Castle City Offices; includes Mrs. Rose Nothdruft, the first women to be elected to the Board of Education in New Castle.
Addendum from Andrew Henley
Jane Gilmore was my second great-aunt! She eventually moved to Alameda, California where she died in 1962 at the age of 86.
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