Papers regarding woman suffrage and equal rights in Virginia [manuscript] 1913-29.

Martin, Thomas S. (Thomas Staples), 1847-1919

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U. S. Senator from Virginia. From the description of Thomas Staples Martin letters to William Wood Fenwick [manuscript], 1888. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 433616030 Thomas Staples Martin was born in Scottsville, Va. July 29, 1847. He served in the Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets in the Civil War. He practiced law and was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served until his death November 12, 1919. From the descripti...

Mapp, G. Walter (George Walter), 1873-1941

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Virginia politician. From the description of Political papers of George Walter Mapp, 1925-1928. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32135315 George Walter Mapp was born 25 May 1873. He taught school after graduating from the College of William and Mary. He graduated from Centre College in Kentucky with a law degree. He practiced law on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and served in the Virginia State Senate. Mapp was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress and for gove...

Clark, Adèle, 1882-1983

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Associated with the women's suffrage movement in Virginia. From the description of Oral history interview of Adele Clark by Charlotte Shelton, August 15, 1973. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647919997 Artist and women's suffragist. From the description of Adèle Clark's remembrances of the Equal Suffrage Movement in Virginia, 1964. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 63211388 Art administrator, Federal Art Project director; Rich...

Valentine, Lile Meade,

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Equal Suffrage League of Virginia

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The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia was organized in 1909 in Richmond, Virginia. Its primary purpose was to publicize and propagandize women's issues in the state, with the goal to win the political vote. Virginia was one of the six states which did not ratify the amendment. The final board meeting of the Equal Suffrage League was on November 8, 1920, and it became the League of Women Voters on November 10, 1920. Ida Mae Thompson, headquarters secretary of the Equal Su...

Wellford, Roberta, 1873-1956

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Roberta Wellford was a charter member, secretary, and director of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia and worked to push the organization of the Virginia League of Women Voters (VLWV) in the 1920s. She participated in the World War I war effort. She did work with the YMCA for troops in Paris and in Germany. As a member of the VLWV, she actively promoted public education in Virginia and supported the League of Nations and the World Court. Wellford was a member of the Daughters of the Confederac...

Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937

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Governor of Virginia. From the description of Typed letter signed : Richmond, Va., to Mrs. Robert M. Littlejohn, 1933 May 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270858090 John Garland Pollard was a Richmond, Va. lawyer who served in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901-2, was Virginia's attorney-general, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, dean of the Marshall-Wythe School of Government and Citizenship at the College of William and Mary, mayor of Williamsburg, Va...

Virginia League of Women Voters.

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