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League of Women Voters (U.S.)
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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...
Hay, Mary Garrett, 1857-1928
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Mary "Mollie" Garrett Hay (August 29, 1857 – August 29, 1928) was an American suffragist, community organizer, and president of the Women's City Club of New York, the Woman Suffrage Party and the New York Equal Suffrage League. Hay was known for creating woman's suffrage groups across the country. She was also close to the notable suffragist, Carrie Chapman Catt, with one contemporary, Rachel Foster Avery, stating that Hay "really loves" Catt. Hay was born in Charlestown, Indiana, in 1857. He...
Reilly, Caroline I.
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Writer and suffragist Caroline I. Reilly served as chairman of the Press Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and assistant to Anna Howard Shaw on the Council of National Defense (1919). In 1921, Reilly was executive secretary of the League of Women Voters in Washington, D.C. From the description of Series VIII of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1907-1941 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008772 ...
Park, Maud Wood, 1871-1955
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Maud Wood Park (January 25, 1871 – May 8, 1955) was an American suffragist and women's rights activist. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1887 she graduated from St. Agnes School in Albany, New York, after which she taught for eight years before attending Radcliffe College. While there she married Charles Edward Park. She graduated from Radcliffe, where she was one of only two students who supported suffrage for women, in 1898. In 1900 she attended the National American Women Suffrage...
Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
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Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Born in northern England in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1847, her family left England and immigrated to the United States. In their new country, the Shaws made several moves. After settling in the bustling port city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, they uprooted again, this time ...
Harriman, Florence Jaffray, 1870-1967
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Diplomat, political activist, and author. Born Florence Jaffray Hurst; died 1967. From the description of Florence Jaffray Hurst Harriman papers, 1857-1982 (bulk 1910-1960). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980111 Florence Jaffray Hurst was born in New York City; in 1889 she married J. Borden Harriman. She managed the New York State Reformatory for Women (1906-1918), was the only woman member of the Federal Industrial Relations Commission (1913-1916), organized a Red Cross m...
Willebrandt, Mabel Walker, 1889-1963
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Lawyer and public official. From the description of Mabel Walker Willebrandt papers, 1881-1978 (bulk 1921-1929). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77575496 ...
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, suffragist, early feminist, political activist, and Iowa State alumna (1880), was born on January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin to Maria Clinton and Lucius Lane. At the close of the Civil War, the Lanes moved to a farm near Charles City, Iowa where they remained throughout their lives. Carrie entered Iowa State College in 1877 completing her work in three years. She graduated at the top of her class and while in Ames established military drills for women, became the first...
