First presidential electress?

[alphaboi867]

Who was the first woman to serve as presidential elector in the US?

[Walloon]

Hmm, I’m guessing it occurred in 1920, but I’m still looking for a name.

Meanwhile, the first woman to receive an electoral vote in the U.S. was Toni Nathan. In 1972, elector Roger MacBride from Virginia voted for the Libertarian Party ticket of John Hospers and Toni Nathan.

[Walloon]

From the Theodore Roosevelt Association:

In November 1912 Theodore Roosevelt carried two states with women’s suffrage, Washington and California (he won six states in all); and in the State of Washington, Helen J. Scott was a Progressive elector. It was said in the press at the time that she was the first woman to cast a vote in the electoral college — and therefore in a real constitutional sense Helen Scott may be said to be the first woman who voted for President! However, some reports list women among the Progressive electors in California, and the matter has not been resolved by historians as yet.

[samclem]

In a Chicago Daily Tribune article from Jan 1913, there were other women who were electors.

In four states women figured in the taking of the ballot. In Utah, Mrs. Margaret Jane Wichter, one of the four electors, was selected to carry the results to Washington.
The Washington electors’ meeting at Olympia refused to choose Mrs. Helen J. Scott of Tacoma as messenger to carry the sever Roosevelt votes to Washington. M. Alfred Haynes was elected. Mrs. Scott, whose name was first on the successful ballot in November, received but one vote today.
Mrs. Gertrude "A. Lee met with the other five electors of Colorado at Denver to help cast the vote of the state for Wilson and Marshall.
By voting for himself and against Mrs. Eugene Brady O’Neill, the Arizone suffrage leader, Elector Wilfred t. Webb won for himself the trip to Washington to carry the official notice of the state’s vote for Wilson.