She was the first president of the Minnesota League of Women Voters and worked to advance public welfare legislation.

Ueland is known for having made the argument, "Minnesota denies the vote to criminals, lunatics, idiots, and women.

With ratification of the 19th amendment, the MWSA became the Minnesota League of Women Voters and Ueland served as its first president.

[6] In 1925, Ueland criticized Republican foreign policy and "back-door" cooperation with the League of Nations, saying, "We have got to spread the gospel among the women, telling them that they are paying too much for cotton and woolen goods, for aluminumware and that the country cannot recover from hard times unless we reduce the tariff.

The couple and their three oldest daughters moved into a sixteen-room house on the south shore of Lake Calhoun in 1891.