Kate Tupper Galpin (1855-1906):
Kate Tupper Galpin was nominated for the office of County Superintendent in Los Angeles County, California in 1894. The women of the county nominate Galpin by petition. Her campaign was unsuccessful Galpin was an educator, having taught at the University of Nevada. She was involved in the suffrage movement in southern California and women's efforts to expand involvement in civic affairs and politics.
Party Affiliation:
Democrat; and endorsed by Prohibition party
Photographs:
The Land of Sunshine, Charles Fletcher Lummis, F.A. Pattee, 1897, p. 286. [see Google Books]
Resources:
"On the Eve of the Election ," The Woman's Journal, No. 45, November 10, 1894, p. 354.
"Kate Tupper Galpin breathes her last," Los Angeles Express, January 10, 1906 [on line Claremont Colleges Digital Library http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/lsc&CISOPTR=1985]
The Land of Sunshine, Charles Fletcher Lummis, F.A. Pattee, 1897, p. 286. [see Google Books]
"Cromwell Galpin [husband]," A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles and Environs: Also Containing Biographies of Well-known Citizens of the Past and Present, James Miller Guinn, Historic Record Co., 1915 [see Google Books]