Minora Ellis Kibbe (née Minora Ellis) was a social reformer and

suffragist Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to v ...

from California. She ran for a seat on the San Francisco area school board in 1908, and for

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in 1918.

Education

Kibbe studied

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for many years, eventually completing a

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degree at

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Candidacy for office

Kibbe ran for a seat in the California Assembly in 1918. This part of an organized effort by women's rights activists in California to have a woman run for a seat in the Assembly from every district throughout the state.

Medical career

Kibbe was a practising physician.

Political activism

Kibbe was a noted California suffragist who frequently lectured on the topic of women's suffrage. In 1904 Kibbe served as the president of the Forty-First District Political Equality Club. She also served on the executive board of the

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. Kibbe attended a number of gatherings where she heard

Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to s ...

speak including one in San Francisco in 1905. At that gathering she organized with numerous other suffragists including

Mary Sperry Mary Elizabeth Simpson Sperry was a leading California suffragist who served as president of the California Woman Suffrage Association. Suffrage work Mary Sperry was one of the leading suffragists in the state of California and was personally ...

. In August 1911 she gave a talk in Oakland about the suffrage amendment on the California ballot that year. California suffragist

Selina Solomons Selina Solomons (1862–1942) was a California suffragist active in the 1911 campaign which resulted in the passage of Proposition 4. Solomons wrote a first hand account of the movement titled, "How We Won the Vote in California". Involvement ...

praised her activism in her book "How We Won the Vote in California."

Personal life

Kibbe was born in Unionville, Nevada. She was married to George Kibbe, and had a son named George Ellis Kibbe. She lived in Oakland.

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