Labor Leader: Elizabeth Allen, first woman NJEA president
Elizabeth A. Allen (1854-1919) was the first woman president of the New Jersey Education Association and was an early force behind teacher pensions...
September 4, 2023
4:48 PM
Elizabeth A. Allen (1854-1919) was the first woman president of the New Jersey Education Association and was an early force behind teacher pensions and tenure. She died of the Spanish Flu five years after becoming NJEA president. Allen began teaching at age 15, initially working in Atlantic City, and spent 48 years as a teacher in the Hoboken school district, eventually becoming an elementary school and high school principal. She had served as vice president of the New Jersey Teacher's Association in 1992.
David Wildstein