same list as Simpson, but otherwise took the honour in good spirits. At the end of the year, as she announced that she would stand for reelection, she stated that "I won't say that I have done better than any man would, but I will say I have done equally well." Asked if she was convinced, after a year in office, that there was a place for women in public life, she responded that "the very fact I am in the work gives my answer to that." The two primary criticisms she faced in her second election campaign focused on her gender and on allegations that she had been too generous in her relief plans for poor and unemployed residents of the town. Her position was that she offered no apology for either criticism, although she then faced some additional controversy for a comment which singled out bachelor men as being uniquely ill-equipped to judge the abilities of women. She faced Streich for a second time in the 1937 election, winning by a slightly larger margin of 86 votes to Streich's 66. In the same election, her husband Joseph was acclaimed to a seat on the school board. In her second year in office, she declared the entire council as a relief committee, and championed projects that would enhance and beautify the town, including the creation of public vegetable and flower gardens. During World War II, she also served as chair of the local rations chapter of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. She served as mayor of Webbwood until 1944, winning eight consecutive elections, sometimes by acclamation. In 1941, for the first and only time in her career her main election challenger was another woman; three men had been nominated without their consent against her, but all withdrew and ran for council seats instead. After stepping down as mayor in 1944, she served as town clerk from 1946 until 1950. Retirement Once she retired from municipal politics, she championed the establishment of a home for the aged in Sudbury, serving on the Sudbury District Home for the Aged. In part, her efforts on the committee led to the opening of Pioneer Manor in Sudbury in 1953. She also spoke out against the forced sterilization of people with developmental disabilities, and encouraged young women to pursue professional careers. Hanley died on January 26, 1959, in Sudbury. She was buried in