Minor, Virginia, 1824-1894
Virginia Minor (b. March 27, 1824, Caroline County, VA–d. Aug. 14, 1894, St. Louis, MO) is best remembered as the plaintiff in Minor v. Happersett, an 1874 United States Supreme Court case. In that case, Minor unsuccessfully argued that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.
Virginia married lawyer Francis Minor in 1843 before settling in St. Louis. During the Civil War, Minor was an active member of the St. Louis Ladies Union Aid Society. In 1867, Minor was co-founded the first president of the Woman's Suffrage Association of Missouri. She eventually joined the National Woman's Suffrage Association. In 1869, Francis and Virginia Minor drafted and circulated pamphlets arguing for women's suffrage based on the newly passed Fourteenth Amendment.
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