High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ida Crouch-Hazlett (born Ida Estelle Crouch, c. 1870 - 1941) was an American political activist prominent in the suffrage and socialist movements. Crouch-Hazlett is best remembered as a prominent orator and organizer for the Socialist Party of America during the first two decades of the 20th Century. In 1902 Crouch-Hazlett became the first female candidate for U.S. Congress from Colorado, when she ran for a seat in the House of Representatives.