Career
The nominee was initially Doctor A.P. Gouthey, with Brehm in second, and William F. Varney in third. Gouthey withdrew and Brehm was nominated by acclamation. Brehm was a suffragette as well as being very active in promoting the temperance movement through her work for the Women"s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) beginning in 1891.
In 1913, United States President Woodrow Wilson appointed her as a delegate to the World Anti-Alcohol Congress in Milan, Italy.
She also served as Superintendent of Franchise of the national WCTU and California State Superintendent of WCTU Institutes. She had also served as the first vice-president of the Woman’s Legislative Council of California.
Brehm died as the result of injuries sustained from the collapse of a grandstand on New Year"s Day, the sixth victim to die. She is buried in Oakland Cemetery in Sandusky, Ohio.
