# List of Virginia suffragists

This is a list of Virginia suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Virginia.

## Groups

* Bedford Equal Suffrage League.
* Colored Women's Voting Club in Roanoke.
* Equal Suffrage League of Fredericksburg.
* Equal Suffrage League of Highland Springs.
* Equal Suffrage League of Lynchburg.
* Equal Suffrage League of Norfolk.
* Equal Suffrage League of Williamsburg.
* Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, formed in 1909.
* Men's Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, formed in 1912.
* Newport News Equal Suffrage League.
* Virginia Beach National Woman's Party.
* Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, created in 1907.
* Virginia Suffrage Association (formerly Virginia Suffrage Society) formed in 1893.
* Virginia Branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage formed in 1915.

## Suffragists

* Pauline Adams (Norfolk).
* Lillie Barbour.
* Janie Porter Barrett (Hampton).
* Kate Waller Barrett (Alexandria).
* Anna Whitehead Bodeker (1826–1904) – leader of the earliest attempts to organize for suffrage in Virginia; co-founder and inaugural president of Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association, the first suffrage association in Virginia.
* Kate Langley Bosher (Richmond).
* Rosa Dixon Bowser (Richmond).
* Martha Haines Butt.
* Anne Atkinson Burmeister Chamberlayne
* Adèle Clark (Richmond).
* Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke
* Elizabeth Cooke (Norfolk).
* Edith Clark Cowles (Richmond).
* Anne Clay Crenshaw (Richmond).
* Blanche Culpeper
* Janet Stuart Oldershaw Durham
* Janetta R. FitzHugh (Fredericksburg).
* Ellen Glasgow (Richmond).
* Nora Houston (Richmond).
* Maude Jamison (Norfolk).
* Julia S. Jennings
* Eugenia Jobson.
* Maria I. Johnston (Fredericksburg).
* Mary Johnston (Richmond).
* Emma Lee Kelley
* Fannie Bayly King.
* Orra Henderson Moore Gray Langhorn (Lynchburg).
* Elizabeth Langhorne Lewis
* Mary Morris Hall Lockwood
* Lucy Randolph Mason (Richmond).
* Nell Mercer (Norfolk).
* Sophie G. Meredith (Richmond).
* Faith W. Morgan.
* Mary-Cooke Branch Munford (Richmond).
* Josephine Mathews Norcom
* Elizabeth Lewis Otey
* Rosewell Page.
* Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton (Roanoke).
* Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon.
* Mary Bell Perkins
* Agnes Dillon Randolph (Richmond).
* Eudora Ramsay Richardson.
* Sally Nelson Robins (Richmond).
* Ellen Robinson.
* Ora Brown Stokes.
* Alice Overbey Taylor.
* Ida Mae Thompson (Richmond).
* Clayton Torrence.
* Jessie Fremont Easton Townsend (Norfolk).
* Lyon G. Tyler (Williamsburg).
* Lila Meade Valentine (Richmond).
* Maggie L. Walker (Richmond).
* Roberta Wellford
* Annie Barna Whitner
* Sarah Harvie Wormeley.
* Eugenie Macon Yancey (Bedford).

### Politicians supporting women's suffrage

* Richard Lewis Brewer, Jr.
* Charles Carlin (originally opposed)
* Howard T. Colvin.
* Howard Cecil Gilmer.
* Thomas Lomax Hunter.
* Allan Jones.
* Wyndham R. Mayo (Norfolk).
* Hill Montague (Richmond).
* John Garland Pollard
* John R. Saunders
* Elbert Lee Trinkle
* Junius E. West

## Places

* Occoquan Workhouse.
* Three Hills.

## Publications

* The Virginia Suffrage News, published monthly starting in 1914. Managed by Alice Overbey Taylor.

## Suffragists who campaigned in Virginia

* Susan B. Anthony.
* William Jennings Bryan.
* Carrie Chapman Catt.
* Pauline Wright Davis.
* Margaret Foley.
* Matilda Joslyn Gage.
* Joy Montgomery Higgins.
* Josephine Miller.
* Mabel Vernon.
* Emma Howard Wight.
* Elizabeth Upham Yates.

## Anti-suffragists in Virginia

* Maria Blair (Richmond).
* Jane M. Rutherford.
* Molly Elliot Seawell
* Catherine Coles Valentine
* Mary Mason Anderson Williams
* Margaret Wilmer
Politicians
* Harry Flood Byrd
* Robert Franklin Leedy.
Groups
* Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (VAOWS), formed in 1912.