Jane Y. McCallum Papers 1815-1967. 1914-1953.

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...

Ferguson, Miriam Amanda, 1875-1961

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Miriam Amanda Wallace (Ma) Ferguson (1875-1961), first female Governor of Texas, was born in Bell County, Texas, on June 13, 1875. She attended Salado College and Baylor Female College at Belton. In 1899, she married James Edward Ferguson. From 1915 to 1917, Mrs. Ferguson served as the first lady of Texas until her husband's impeachment during his second administration. When James Ferguson failed to get his name on the ballot in 1924, Miriam entered the race for the Texas governorship. Defeating...

Women’s Committee for Economic Policy for Texas

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Colonial Dames of America

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Taylor, A. Elizabeth

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National American Woman Suffrage Association

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Formed in 1890 by the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. From the description of National American Woman Suffrage Association records, 1839-1961 bulk (1890-1930). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979907 The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed in 1890 with the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. NAWSA fought for complete political ...

McCallum, Brown.

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Bowles, Mrs. Willie D.

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McCallum, Arthur Newell.

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United World Federalist of Texas

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Freeman, Elizabeth.

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Finnigan, Annette.

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Yelvington, Alvaro Leonard.

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Cunningham, Minnie Fisher, 1882-1964

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Minnie Fisher Cunningham (1882-1964), nicknamed “Minnie Fish” by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was a Texas suffragette and political leader, who cofounded and served on several voting and political clubs. In 1901, she became one of the first three women to graduate from the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston with a pharmacy degree, and in 1928 she ran as the first female candidate from Texas for the U.S. Senate. In 1944, she came in second out of nine in a race for governor, losi...

Moore, Helen.

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Joint Legislative Council.

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Doom, Nell.

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Yelvington, Mary Fullerton Legette.

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Metcalf, Charles.

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Women’s Liberty Loan Committee

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McCallum, Henry DeRosset.

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Texas Equal Suffrage Association.

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Austin Public School.

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McCallum, Jane Y.

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Instrumental in obtaining the vote for women in Texas, Jane L. (Yelvington) McCallum (1878-1957) served as officer in the Texas Equal Suffrage Association and later as Texas Secretary of State (1927-1933). In the files of the latter office, she found and rescued from decay the original Texas Declaration of Independence. McCallum served on the Austin City Planning Commission, the Texas Joint Legislative Council, and in many other public capacities, and participated actively in the National Societ...

Texas Woman Suffrage Association.

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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...

Austin Woman’s Club.

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Rainey, Homer.

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Hunter, Kate.

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Hobby, William Pettus, 1878-1964

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William “Bill” P. Hobby served as lieutenant governor of Texas for 18 years (1973-1991). Born in Houston on January 19, 1932, he is the son of former Texas governor William Pettus Hobby, Sr. and Oveta Culp Hobby. He graduated from Rice University in 1953, served for several years in the United States Navy, and then joined the staff of the Houston Post, owned by the Hobby family. Hobby became executive editor and president of the newspaper company in 1965, and he remained president u...

Morley, Kathleen McCallum.

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McCallum Jr., Arthur Newell.

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Moody, Dan.

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Austin Woman’s Suffrage Association.

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Equal Rights Association

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Austin (Tex.). - Planning Commission.

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Stearns, Lutie Eugenia, 1866?-1943

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Sterling, Ross S., 1875-1949

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Texas Governor Ross Shaw Sterling (1875-1949) was born to Benjamin Franklin and Mary Jane (Bryan) Sterling near Anahuac, Texas. He spent his early career in farming and business, and then entered the banking industry. In 1898, he married Maud Abbie Gage, with whom he had five children. In 1910, Sterling purchased two oil wells and developed the Humble Oil and Refining Company. He sold his interests in the company in 1925 and entered real estate development in the Houston area. In 19...

Austin Open Forum.

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Ames, Jessie Daniel

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McCallum, Jane Y.

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Born Jane Yelvington in La Vernia, Texas, on December 30, 1877, Jane McCallum became a leader in the woman suffrage movement in Texas. After raising four children with husband Arthur Newell McCallum, Sr., McCallum began her career in politics working for woman’s right to vote. In 1915, members of the Austin Women’s Suffrage Association elected her president, and she later served as secretary of the Texas Equal Suffrage Association. McCallum worked exhaustively for passage of the state constituti...

Neff, Pat.

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McCallum, Alvaro Yelvington.

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Ferguson, James.

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Engle, Lavinia M.

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Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs

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The largest voluntary association of women in the state, the Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs (TFWC) was founded in 1897 to combine the efforts of existing women’s literary clubs around the state. Since then, the scope of the TFWC’s work has expanded to include the promotion of improvements in education, natural resource conservation, domestic issues, public affairs, international affairs, the arts, and Texas heritage. The organization’s first few decades were a time of great activ...