from A Woman of the Century
Clara Shortridge Foltz (1849-1934):
from A Woman of the Century
Clara Shortridge Foltz was a pioneering woman attorney who opened the California bar to
women lawyers. She practiced law until the age of 80 and innovated the idea of
an office of public defender. Foltz was the president of the California state suffrage league and a lawyer, who “canvassed the state four times in political campaigns”. Foltz ran for City Attorney and City Councillor in San Francisco. In 1911 Foltz declared herself a candidate for state Senator. In that campaign she emphasized a women's rights platform as well creation of an office of public
defender, penal reform, and changes in laws affecting women and children. She
withdrew after learning that her opponent would not be an anti-suffrage
candidate. Foltz also ran unsuccessfully for governor of California in 1930.
Party Affiliation:
People's Party (San Francisco race); Republican (race for governor in 1930)
Photographs:
See: "Clara Foltz, San Francisco, Cal." The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 10, p. 263, Oct . 1893 (with photograph)
“Clara S. Foltz,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_S._Foltz
A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life, Eds. Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore. Charles Wells Moulton, 1893. [Google Books]
Resources:
"Clara Foltz, San Francisco, Cal." The Law Student's Helper, Vol. 1, No. 10, p. 263, Oct . 1893 (with photograph)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/articles/Claraoltz.pdf
Woman’s Who’s Who of America.
“Clara S. Foltz,”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_S._Foltz
California Women: A Guide to Their Politics, 1885-1911, Reda Davis, San Francisco, CA: California Scene, 1967.
A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life, Eds. Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore. Charles Wells Moulton, 1893. [Google Books]