She was a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the head of the Rhode Island College Equal Suffrage League and Third Vice-President of the Women's National Single Tax League, a group supporting the ideas of Henry George.
In 1932 she was the running mate of presidential candidate John Zahnd of the National Party, also known as the Independent Party; Zahnd has been called "one of the more intriguing fringe candidates in American history." She was the third woman to have run for vice-president in the United States. They won 1,645 votes versus the 22,821,277 of winners Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Nance Garner. It was the only time perennial candidate Zahnd was known to have received any votes. She ran again with Zahnd in 1936 at which point the party's name was changed to the Greenback Party.
History of Women Suffrage Ida Husted Harper(editor)
Club Women of New York 1910-1911
"Fighting Bob" La Follette and the Progressive Movement: Third-Party Politics in the 1920s by Darcy G. Richardson, page 235.
She was a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the head of the Rhode Island College Equal Suffrage League and Third Vice-President of the Women's National Single Tax League, a group supporting the ideas of Henry George.
In 1932 she was the running mate of presidential candidate John Zahnd of the National Party, also known as the Independent Party; Zahnd has been called "one of the more intriguing fringe candidates in American history." She was the third woman to have run for vice-president in the United States. They won 1,645 votes versus the 22,821,277 of winners Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Nance Garner. It was the only time perennial candidate Zahnd was known to have received any votes. She ran again with Zahnd in 1936 at which point the party's name was changed to the Greenback Party.
History of Women Suffrage Ida Husted Harper(editor)
Club Women of New York 1910-1911
"Fighting Bob" La Follette and the Progressive Movement: Third-Party Politics in the 1920s by Darcy G. Richardson, page 235.
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