# List of California suffragists

This is a list of notable California suffragists who were politically active before and during the successful Proposition 4 in 1911 which gave women won the right to vote.

## Groups

* California Equal Suffrage Association
* California Political Equality League
* California Woman Suffrage Society
* Congressional Union for Women Suffrage
* Fannie Jackson Coppin Club
* Los Angeles Forum of Colored Women.
* National American Woman Suffrage Association
* National Woman's Party
* Political Equality Club of Alameda
* Votes for Women Club
* Women's Christian Temperance Union
* Woman's Club of Palo Alto
* Young Women's Suffrage Club

## Early 19th century suffragists

* Anna Dickinson
* Laura de Force Gordon
* Georgiana Bruce Kirby
* Emily Pitts Stevens
* Ellen Clark Sargent
* Elizabeth Lowe Watson

## Suffragists in the 1896 campaign

* Naomi Anderson
* Alida Avery
* Addie Ballou
* James H. Barry
* Nellie Holbrook Blinn
* Ada Chastina Bowles
* Elinor Majors Carlisle
* Jeanne Carr
* Thomas V. Cator
* Ina Donna Coolbrith
* Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper
* Henry Clay Dibble
* Nellie Blessing Eyster
* Clara Shortridge Foltz
* Sarah Dix Hamlin
* Ida Harper
* Harriet Hobe
* Emma Shafter Howard
* Sarah Knox-Goodrich
* Eliza D. Keith
* Sara Lemmon
* Margaret V. Longley
* Agnes M. Manning
* Alice Moore McComas
* Frances W. McLean
* Kate Moody
* Mabel V. Osbourne
* Mary Goldsmith Prag
* Jennie Phelps Purvis
* Anna M. Morrison Reed.
* Ellen Clark Sargent
* Rebecca Spring
* Jane Lathrop Stanford
* Anna Strunsky
* Beaumelle Sturtevant-Peet
* Rowena Granice Steele.
* Mary Louise Swett
* Laura Lyon White
* Charlotte Anita Whitney
* Eliza Tucker Wilkes
* Elizabeth Yates

## Suffragists in the 1911 campaign

* Charles F. Aked
* Gertrude Atherton
* Mary Austin
* Charlotte Baker
* Bertha Hirsch Baruch – writer, president of the Los Angeles Suffrage Association.
* Helen Valeska Bary (1888–1973) – suffragist, researcher, and social reformer
* Bessie Beatty
* Elia Costillo Bennett
* Annie Ellicott Kennedy Bidwell
* Isabella Williams Blaney (1854–1933) – suffragist, politician.
* John Hyde Braly
* Eva Carter Buckner (Los Angeles).
* Mary Ryerson Butin (1857–1944) – physician; California suffragist.
* Lillian Harris Coffin
* Dora K. Crittenden
* Constance Dean
* Mabel Deering
* Maria de Lopez
* Katherine Philips Edson (1870–1933) – social worker and feminist, worked to add women's suffrage to the California State Constitution.
* Mary Fairbrother
* Katherine Felton
* Susan Fenton
* Londa Stebbins Fletcher
* Clara Shortridge Foltz
* Mary Emily Foy
* Rose M. French
* Mary T. Gamage
* Elizabeth Sears Gerberding
* Mary Simpson Gibson
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman
* Thomas Edward Hayden
* Dora Haynes
* John Randolph Haynes
* Phoebe Apperson Hearst
* Willa Henry
* Gail Laughlin
* Mary McHenry Keith
* Elizabeth Kenney
* Elizabeth Thatcher Kent
* Louise La Rue
* Clara Chan Lee (1886–1993) – first Chinese American to register to vote in the US, 8 November 1911
* Austin Lewis
* Jack London
* Mary Theresa Longley
* Ethel Lynn
* Walter Macarthur
* Ida Finney Mackrille
* Lillian Jane Martin
* Martha Nelson McCan
* John Knox McLean
* Emma Sutro Merritt
* Miriam Michelson
* Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills
* Ethel Moore
* Helen Moore
* May Treat Morrison
* Charles Murdock
* Rabbi Jacob Nieto
* Frances Nacke Noel.
* Sarah Massey Overton (1850–1914) – women's rights activist and black rights activist.
* George Pardee
* Alice Park
* Maud Wood Park
* Martha Pearce
* Francesca Pierce
* Laura Bride Powers
* Louise Merrill Pratt
* Agnes Ray
* Edwin Alsworth Ross
* Helen P. Sanborn
* Ellen Clark Sargent
* Clara W. Schlingheyde
* Caroline Severance
* Minnie Sharkey
* Charles M. Shortridge
* Myra Virginia Simmons
* Selina Solomons
* Anna Kalfus Spero
* Mary Simpson Sperry
* Emelie Tracy Swett
* Mary Wood Swift
* Lucretia Watson Taylor
* Beatrice Sumner Thompson (California).
* Hettie Blonde Tilghman
* Frances Watson Toll
* Florence True
* Charlotte L. Willis
* Jackson Stitt Wilson
* Annie Wood
* Maud Younger

## Suffragists who campaigned in California

* Lucy Anthony
* Susan B. Anthony
* Carrie Chapman Catt
* Abigail Scott Duniway
* Helen Hoy Greeley.
* Julia Ward Howe
* Florence Kelley
* Anne Henrietta Martin
* Anna Howard Shaw
* Sylvia Pankhurst
* Helen Todd