C.M. Woodward (1840-?) :
In 1894 C.M. Woodward was nominated as a candidate from Nebraska’s Fourth District for the U.S. House of Representatives. Active in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, she was described as a “strong” woman suffrage worker. She was a delegate to the Prohibition Party’s 1888 national convention in Indianapolis. In 1891 she was nominated by that party as a candidate for regent of the State University, and led the state ticket by a large vote.
Party Affiliation:
Prohibition
Photographs:
Kansas Historical Society
Resources:
“On the Eve of Election,”Woman’s Journal (November 10, 1894), pp. 353-54.
Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore, A Woman of the Century (Buffalo: C. W. Moulton, 1893)