John Peter Altgeld [SEP] position held
John Peter Altgeld
John Peter Altgeld (December 30, 1847 – March 12, 1902) was an American politician and the 20th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1893 until 1897. He was the first Democrat to govern that state since the 1850s. A leading figure of the Progressive movement, Altgeld signed workplace safety and child labor laws, pardoned three of the men convicted in the Haymarket Affair, and rejected calls in 1894 to break up the Pullman strike by force. In 1896 he was a leader of the progressive wing
position, of the University of Illinois in 1894. However, the next year, Governor John Peter Altgeld named Smith as the school's first female trustee to fill a vacancy. Thanks to the success of Smith, eleven of the eighteen candidates for the university board the next year were women.
Smith was a fellow of the American Medical Association and a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy. She lived in Oak Park, Illinois. Smith retired in 1917 and died November 10, 1930, in Winnetka, Illinois.