in 1911, when californian women achieved the right to vote, caroline severance was lauded as the spiritual leader of the suffrage movement in southern california, although her advanced age had limited her participation in the campaign. she was featured in every los angeles newspaper the day after the election. although it has often been written that she was the first woman to register to vote in the state, this is not true. in fact, she registered a week after the election, when a registrar came to her home. she did, however, go to the polls the following year to vote in the presidential election, and in 1912, at the age of ninety-two she cast her vote for president, having worked for woman suffrage for more than sixty years. although she told the press that she had voted for theodore roosevelt, it is just as likely that she voted for the socialist candidate. as joan jensen wrote in "women in the life of southern california", "by the time she died in 1914 she was firmly committed to a new radicalism. had she lived on through world war 1, perhaps she would have been classed as a 'parlor bolshevik,' dangerous pacifist, and pro-laborite, and her home watched carefully by members of the many loyalty leagues of los angeles." she died on november 10, 1914.