Background
Isabell Masters was born Isabell Architecture in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on January 9, 1913. Her father, a businessman, was of African American and German descent.
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Masters graduated from Douglas High School in Oklahoma City and received a bachelor"s degree in education from Langston University.
Career
Masters" five presidential campaigns are the most for any woman in United States. history. She was a candidate in the United States presidential election, 1984, 1992 (339 votes), 1996, and 2004 presidential elections. In 1996, she was only on the ballot in Arkansas (but also received a few votes in California and Maryland) (752 votes total, 2000).
Personal life
She later earned a doctorate from the University of Oklahoma.
An educator by profession, Masters taught in California, New York, Nevada and Kansas during her career. She specifically worked in schools in the American cities of Pasadena, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Kansas City and Syracuse, New New York
Masters married Alfred Masters, who became the first African American to enlist in the United States Marines when he was sworn in on June 1, 1942. She raised six children as a single mother.
Despite personal and professional challenges, Masters obtained her master"s degree in higher education from the University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles).
She later earned a doctorate from the University of Oklahoma during her late 60s. Presidential campaigns
In 2000 she was a write-in candidate in Kansas alongside George West. Bush and First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore. She made several unsuccessful attempts at winning the Republican primary elections for President.
In addition to her presidential campaigns, Masters ran for city council in Topeka, Kansas, and was once a candidate for Mayor of West Palm Beach, Florida.
Masters" had six children. They include Review Thomas A. Masters Senior of the New Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church (Riviera Beach, Florida), the current Mayor of Riviera Beach who was a community leader protesting efforts by the George West. Bush legal team to stop the Florida election recount following the controversial 2000 United States presidential election.
Her daughter, political scientist Cora Masters, became the fourth wife of former Washington, District of Columbia Isabell Masters died in her sleep on September 11, 2011, in at a nursing facility in Lake Worth, Florida, at the age of 98.
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