Artifacts
Winifred Stanley, an accomplished attorney and women’s rights advocate, served a single term representing Erie County, NY. She was the first Member to introduce an equal pay for equal work bill, and supported a constitutional elimination of the poll tax. Though she won her one election in a landslide, her at-large district was destined to be redrawn, and the Republican party did not support her renomination in the new district.
Winifred Stanley Campaign Postcard, 1944, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives