Woman's Democratic Club papers, 1910-1945, 1920-1932 (bulk dates).

Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell, 1872-1920

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Suffragist, social reformer. Madeline McDowell was born at Woodlake, Franklin County, Ky., May 20, 1872. She married Desha Breckinridge on November 17, 1898. Mrs. Breckinridge was president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association from 1912-1915, and again in 1919. She was second vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1913-1914. She served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fayette County Tuberculosis Sanitarium; was a director of the Fayet...

Wilson, Samuel M.

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The Dudley Oil and Gas Company was first incorporated in 1903 with its main headquarters located in Wilmington, Delaware. According to its minutes, the company's purpose was to transact business "...relating to the production and sale of oil land or leases, petroleum oil or gas..." Within Kentucky, Dudley Oil and Gas focused much of its activity in Lee County and established an office in the city of Lexington. Judge Samuel M. Wilson of Lexington served as secretary to the company and collected t...

Wilson, Mary Shelby, 1876-1959.

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Woman's Democratic Club of Fayette County (Ky.)

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Mary Shelby Wilson, the wife of Samuel M. Wilson, a Lexington, Ky. attorney very active in the Democratic Party of Kentucky, was herself involved in Democratic Party women's activities. She played a role in the formation of the Women's Democratic League in Lexington in 1916, and in the founding of the Woman's Democratic Club of Fayette County in 1920, later serving as its chairman. As a local organizer, she corresponded with the Democratic National Committee, with candidates for office, with oth...

Democratic Party (Ky.)

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Campaign officials In 1920 Mrs. Mary Shelby Wilson chaired the Kentucky Women's Democratic Convention and was president of the National Democratic Victory Club of Lexington. Judge Samuel M. Wilson began his political career supporting William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson, but he was most active in the elections of 1920 and 1924 as state campaign chairman. Subsequently he was less active in the campaigns of Al Smith and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From the...

Clay, Laura, 1849-1941

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Suffragist, social reformer. Laura Clay, daughter of emancipationist Cassius M. Clay and his first wife, Mary Jane Warfield Clay, was born at the family estate, White Hall, in 1849. As a result of her parents' divorce and the inequitable property settlement which followed, Miss Clay decided to devote herself to improving "the unworthy position of women." She was a founder of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association and was recognized as a national leader in the women's suff...

Lloyd, Alice, -1962

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