The League of Women Voters of Johnson County was established in 1920 by Zella White Stewart. The Johnson County league is a local branch of the National League of Women Voters which evolved from the National American Woman Suffrage Association after the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the vote was ratified. As a nonpartisan organization, the league was to provide a forum for women to discuss topics in politics so they could become informed voters. Later its scope was expanded to educating the electorate at large about a broad range of local, state, and national issues.
Since 1974 men have been admitted as members of the league.
From the description of Records of the League of Women Voters of Johnson County, 1920-[ongoing]. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233102915
