:Recognizing public education as a public good, policymakers have focused on providing those with direct interest in public schools opportunities to influence educational policy making. In the nineteenth century, this often meant providing women the right to vote on and to hold public school offices. Frequently conflated, suffrage and public office holding are actually two different, yet related, citizenship rights. Using state and territorial legislative records as a starting place, this article redefines the understanding of school suffrage by complicating the traditional narrative relative to its relationship with full woman suffrage. In doing so, it also provides evidence that before 1900 women were granted the right to hold public education offices, ultimately being elected in forty-three of forty-eight states before the twentieth century, thus broadening the understanding of women’s political agency prior to attaining full suffrage.

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重新审视十九世纪妇女的政治机构：学校选举权和任职

：认识到公共教育是一种公共产品，政策制定者专注于为那些对公立学校有直接兴趣的人提供影响教育政策制定的机会。在 19 世纪，这通常意味着赋予妇女投票权和担任公立学校职务的权利。经常将选举权和担任公职混为一谈，实际上是两种不同但相关的公民权利。本文以州和地区的立法记录为起点，通过将传统叙述与女性完全选举权的关系复杂化，重新定义了对学校选举权的理解。在这样做时，它还提供了证据表明，在1900名妇女获得公共教育办公室之前，最终在二十世纪之前在四十三个州的四十三个州选出，