Rose Morgan French (?-?):
Rose M. French ran for the position of School Director in San Francisco (probably ca. 1911). French was active in the California state suffrage association and served as the chair of the literature committee. She was also a member of the U.S. delegation to the International Conference of Women for a Permanent Peace at The Hague in 1915. French again acted as a delegate to the second conference of this organization, when it renamed itself, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, in 1919.
Party Affiliation:
Prohibition
Photographs:
Photograph of U.S. Delegation to The Hague:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/Exhibits/wilpfexhibit/1915to1919/1915haguephoto.htm
Rose is pictured seated in front row, first on right
Photograph of U.S. Delegation to the 1919 conference of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, in Zurich, Switzerland.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/Exhibits/wilpfexhibit/1915to1919/1919congress.html
Resources:
California Women: A Guide to Their Politics, 1885-1911, Reda Davis, San Francisco, CA: California Scene, 1967.
History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. IV, Edited by Ida Husted Harper, National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1922, p. 38.
Records of the Woman's Peace Party, Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section, Swarthmore College Peace Collection.