she became one of the people from Colorado to testify to the House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary in favor of the suffrage amendment. The first woman elected to office in Denver, she became City Election Commissioner in 1910 and served in that role until 1915. In 1917 she moved to Washington, D.C. to work at the National Democratic headquarters. Personal life Meredith was married in 1889 to Howard S. Stansbury and they divorced in 1901. She married Henry H. Clement in 1913. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1917 to take a job with the Women's Bureau of the Democratic Party and continued to be an active member of the Woman's National Democratic Club. She died in 1955. The Ellis Meredith Papers are held in the Colorado Historical Society in Denver, Colorado. Meredith was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2018. References External links American suffragists American feminists 1865 births 1955 deaths Rocky Mountain News people American women novelists