Ada Miser Kepley (1847-1925):
Ada Miser Kepley ran for Illinois state attorney genera in 188l. Kepley wrote: "I have been a candidate for state's attorney on a County Prohibition ticket, and received more votes than any other candidate thereon. Had I been elected I proposed to test the question whether or not a woman could act as states attorney, as the right was disputed." She was twice elected to serve on the local school board and was the first woman School Director in Effingham County, Illinois.
Party Affiliation:
Prohibition
Photographs:
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.
Resources:
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.
"Ada Kepley," Unitarian Universalist Association
http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/adamiserkepley.html
Additional Notes:
Kepley was the first woman to graduate from a U.S. law school-the Union Law College, Chicago (now known as Northwestern University), in 1870. She was an avid temperance worker with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, on the national and Illinois state levels. Kepley also worked for woman suffrage beginning in the 1880s. She became an ordained Unitarian minister in 1892.