Mary Woolley Chamberlain (1870-1953) [aka Mary W. Howard]:
Mary Woolley Chamberlain ran for town clerk and mayor of Kanab, Utah under the pseudonym of Mary W. Howard. Chamberlain served as town clerk in 1896. She was elected mayor of Kanab in 1911 and served from 1912-1913. Chamberlain also served as president of the town council
Party Affiliation:
Republican (1896 election); unknown (1911 election)
Photographs:
Women of Kanab, Utah town council, Utah State Historical Society
Resources:
"Women in Office," by Jane Campbell National Municipal Review, Vol IV, NO. 2, April 1915, pp.211-216.
"Western women were in the thick of the suffrage movement," Eileen Hallett Stone, Salt Lake Tribune August 10, 2008 [on line]
"Kanab’s All Woman Town Council, 1912-1914: Politics, Power Struggles, and Polygamy," by Kylie Nielson Turley, Utah Historical Quarterly, Fall, 2005, Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 308-328.