Susan B. Anthony (center) with Laura Clay, Anna Howard Shaw, Alice Stone Blackwell, Annie Kennedy Bidwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida Husted Harper, and Rachel Foster Avery in 1896.
This is a list of suffragists and suffrage activists working in the United States and its territories. This list includes suffragists who worked across state lines or nationally. See individual state or territory lists for other American suffragists not listed here.
Elnora Monroe Babcock (1852–1934) – pioneer leader in the suffrage movement; chair of the NAWSA press department.[16]
Addie L. Ballou (1838–1916) – activist, journalist and lecturer on temperance, women's suffrage, and prison reform.[17]
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) – African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the civil rights movement.[18]
Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) – women's rights and temperance advocate; her name was associated with women's clothing reform style known as bloomers.[27]
Marietta Bones (1842–1901) – suffragist, social reformer, philanthropist.[28]
Helen Varick Boswell (1869–1942) – member of the Woman's National Republican Association and the General Federation of Women's Clubs.[29]
Lucy Gwynne Branham (1892–1966) – professor, organizer, lobbyist, active in the National Women's Party and its Silent Sentinels, daughter of suffragette Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham.[30]
Olympia Brown (1835–1926) – activist, first woman to graduate from a theological school, as well as becoming the first full-time ordained minister, suffrage speaker.[31]
Mary Barr Clay (1839–1924) – first Kentuckian to hold the office of president in a national woman's organization (American Woman Suffrage Association), and the first Kentucky woman to speak publicly on women's rights.[39]
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights.[40]
Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement.[41][42]
Lillian Feickert (1877–1945) – suffragette; first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate[56]
Mary Fels (1863–1953) – philanthropist, suffragist, Georgist.[57][58]
Sara Bard Field (1882–1974) – active with the National Advisory Council, National Woman's Party, and in Oregon and Nevada; crossed the US to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures to President Wilson.[59]
Margaret Foley (1875–1957) – working class suffragist, active in Massachusetts and campaigning in other states.[60]
Helen Hoy Greeley (1878–1965) – Secretary, New Jersey Next Campaign (1915), stump speaker, organizer, and mobilizer in California and Oregon campaigns (1911), speaker for Women's Political Union in NYC.[65][66]
Josephine Sophia White Griffing (1814–1872) – active in the American Equal Rights Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association.[67]
Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper.[71]
Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934) – African American community organizer, creator of the Susan B. Anthony clubs.[78]
Izetta Jewel (1883–1978) – stage actress, women's rights activist, politician and first woman to second the nomination of a presidential candidate at a major American political party convention.[79]
Adella Hunt Logan (1863–1915) – African-American intellectual, activist and leading suffragist of the historically black Tuskegee University's Woman's Club.[89]
Virginia Minor (1824–1894) – co-founder and president of the Woman's Suffrage Association of Missouri; unsuccessfully argued in Minor v. Happersett (1874 Supreme Court case) that the Fourteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote.[92]
Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) – Quaker, abolitionist; women's rights activist; social reformer.[93]
Alice Paul, National Chairman of the Woman's Party, August 18, 1920.Maud Wood Park (1871–1955) – founder of the College Equal Suffrage League, co-founder of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government (BESAGG); worked for passage of the 19th Amendment.[97][98]
Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973) – first U.S. female member of Congress (R) Montana. Rankin opened congressional debate on a Constitutional amendment granting universal suffrage to women, and voted for the resolution in 1919, which would become the 19th Amendment.[103]
Nina Samorodin (1892–1981) – Russian-born NWP member, executive secretary of National Labor Alliance for Trade Relations with and Recognition of Russia, secretary of Women's Trade-Union League
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) – birth control activist, sex educator, nurse, established Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Annie Nowlin Savery (1831–1891) – English-born Iowa suffragist active from the 1860s
Julia Sears (1840–1929) – pioneering academic and first woman in the US to head a public college, now Minnesota State University
Abby Hadassah Smith (1797–1879) – early American suffragist from Connecticut who campaigned for property and voting rights
Eliza Kennedy Smith, also known as Mrs. R. Templeton Smith (1889–1964) – suffragist, civic activist, and government watchdog in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and president of the Allegheny County League of Women Voters
Jane Norman Smith (1874–1953) – suffragist and reformer. Chairman of the National Woman's Party from 1927 to 1929.
Judith Winsor Smith (1821–1921) – president of the East Boston Woman Suffrage League
May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858–1943) – educator and first woman to obtain a doctoral degree in philosophy in the United States
The Smiths of Glastonbury – family of 6 women in Connecticut who were active in championing suffrage, property rights, and education for women
Helen Ekin Starrett (1840–1920) – author, journalist, educator, editor, business owner, lecturer, inventor, poet, pioneer suffragist, and one of the two state delegates from the 1869 National Convention to attend the Victory Convention in 1920
Sarah Burger Stearns (1836–1904) – first president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association
Rowena Granice Steele (1824–1901) – advocate of woman suffrage, as a speaker and writer
Doris Stevens (1892–1963) – organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and the National Woman's Party, prominent Silent Sentinels participant, author of Jailed for Freedom
Sara Yorke Stevenson (1847–1921) – archaeologist and Egyptologist, active in the Philadelphia suffrage movement
Jane Agnes Stewart (1860–1944) – author, editor; inventor of the first equal rights calendar
Elizabeth Richards Tilton (1834–1897) – suffragist, founder of the Brooklyn Women's Club, poetry editor of The Revolution, hellish scandal
Annie Rensselaer Tinker (1884–1924) – suffragist, volunteer nurse in World War I, and philanthropist
Augusta Lewis Troup (1848–1920) – women's rights activist and journalist who advocated for equal pay, better working conditions for women, and women's right to vote
Grace Wilbur Trout (1864–1955) – President of the Illinois Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, spearheaded the 1913 effort granting Illinois women the right to vote
Narcissa Cox Vanderlip, née Mabel Narcissa Cox (1879–1966) – leading New York suffragist and co-founder of the New York State League of Women Voters[112][113][114]
Amelie Veiller Van Norman (1844–1920) – educator; president, Joan of Arc Suffrage League; vice-president, New York County Suffrage League; member, Suffrage Party, New York City
Mina Van Winkle (1875–1932) – crusading social worker, groundbreaking police lieutenant and national leader in the protection of girls and other women during the law enforcement and judicial process
Alice Ames Winter (1865–1944) – litterateur, author, clubwoman, suffragist
Emma Wold (1871–1950) – president of the College Equal Suffrage Association in Oregon, later headquarters secretary of the National Woman's Party
Clara Snell Wolfe (1872–1970) – first vice-chairman National Woman's Party and chairman Ohio Branch
Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) – women's rights activist, first woman to speak before a committee of Congress, first female candidate for President of the United States, one of the first women to start a weekly newspaper (Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly,) activist for labor reforms, advocate of free love
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