A century of women in San Diego politics
Print The first women to hold top elected offices in San Diego County local governments after women in California got the right to vote weren’t chosen at the ballot box. It was a pattern in the early years. Soon after California gave women the right to vote in 1911 and the 19th Amendment enfranchised women nationally in 1920, many of the groundbreaking women in San Diego County politics got a foothold in the top tiers of government when powerful men chose them to fill seats vacated by incumbents. One of them was Mildred Greene, the first woman to hold elected office in San Diego County, in ...
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