# List of American suffragists

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.

## Groups

* American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), created in 1869.
* College Equal Suffrage League.
* Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.
* Equal Franchise Society.
* The Men's League.
* National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), created in 1890 through the merger of AWSA and NWSA.
* National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).
* Silent Sentinels.

## Suffragists
### A

* Mary Newbury Adams (1837–1901) – suffragist and education advocate.
* Jane Addams (1860–1935) – social activist and suffragist.
* Teresa Adams (c. 1869 –1947) – African-American suffragist, leader of the Iowa Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (IACWC) suffrage committee
* Nina E. Allender (1873–1957) – speaker, organizer and cartoonist.
* Naomi Anderson (1863–1899) – African American suffragist, temperance advocate.
* Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – co-founder and leader National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), one of the leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote, was popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.
* Annie Arniel (1873–1924) – member of the Silent Sentinels, arrested eight times in direct actions.

### B

* Elnora Monroe Babcock (1852–1934) – pioneer leader in the suffrage movement; chair of the NAWSA press department.
* Addie L. Ballou (1838–1916) – activist, journalist and lecturer on temperance, women's suffrage, and prison reform.
* Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) – African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the civil rights movement.
* Rosario Bellber González (1881–1948) – educator, social worker, women's rights activist, suffragist, and philanthropist; president of the Social League of Suffragists of Puerto Rico
* Alva Belmont (1853–1933) – founder of the Political Equality League that was in 1913 merged into the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.
* Elsie Lincoln Benedict (1885–1970) – suffragist leader and speaker.
* Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) – journalist, activist, helped bring the AWSA and NWSA together.
* Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) – preacher and contributor to the Woman's Journal.
* Henry Browne Blackwell (1825–1909) – co-founder of AWSA and Woman's Journal.
* Lillie Devereux Blake (1833–1913) – writer, suffragist, reformer.
* Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (1856–1940) – writer (contributor to History of Woman Suffrage), founded Women's Political Union, daughter of pioneering activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
* Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) – women's rights and temperance advocate; her name was associated with women's clothing reform style known as bloomers.
* Marietta Bones (1842–1901) – suffragist, social reformer, philanthropist.
* Helen Varick Boswell (1869–1942) – member of the Woman's National Republican Association and the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
* 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.
* 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.
* Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – women's rights advocate, co-founder of the National Woman's Party.

### C

* Margaret Weissinger CastlemanJennie Curtis Cannon (1851–1929) – Vice President of NAWSA.
* Margaret Weissinger Castleman (1880–1945) – suffragist, president of the Louisville Woman Suffrage Association and second vice president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association
* Marion Hamilton Carter (1865–1937) – educator, journalist, suffragist author.
* Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) – president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women, campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
* Emily Thornton Charles (1845–1895) – poet, journalist, suffragist, newspaper founder.
* Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923) – one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, advocate of legalized prostitution.
* Laura Clay (1849–1941) – co-founder and first president of Kentucky Equal Rights Association, leader of women's suffrage movement, active in the Democratic Party.
* 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.
* 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.
* Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement.
* Mary Leggett Cooke (1852–1938) – Unitarian minister; suffragist.
* Ida Craft (1861–1947) – known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes.

### D

* Carrie Chase Davis (1863–1953) – physician, suffragist.
* Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (1813–1876) – a founder of the New England Woman Suffrage Association; active with the National Woman Suffrage Association; co-arranged and presided at the first National Women's Rights Convention.
* Zell Hart Deming (1869‒1936) – suffragist, philanthropist, newspaper editor and the treasurer of the Ohio State Suffrage Association
* Rheta Childe Dorr (1868–1948) – journalist, suffragist newspaper editor, writer, and political activist.
* Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) – African-American social reformer, orator, writer, statesman.

### E

* Crystal Eastman (1881–1928) – lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist.
* Mary F. Eastman – educator, lecturer and writer.
* Max Eastman (1883–1969) – writer, philosopher, poet, political activist.
* Julia Emory (1885–1979) – suffragist from Maryland, protestor with the Silent Sentinels.
* Elizabeth Piper Ensley (1848–1919) – Caribbean-American woman who was the treasurer of the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association.
* Elizabeth Glendower Evans (1856–1937) – social reformer and suffragist.

### F

* Janet Ayer Fairbank (1878–1951) – author and champion of progressive causes.
* Lillian Feickert (1877–1945) – suffragette; first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate
* Mary Fels (1863–1953) – philanthropist, suffragist, Georgist.
* 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.
* Margaret Foley (1875–1957) – working class suffragist, active in Massachusetts and campaigning in other states.
* Jessica Garretson Finch (1871–1949) – president of the New York Equal Franchise Society
* Mariana Thompson Folsom (1845–1909) – Universalist minister and lecturer for Iowa Suffrage Association and Texas Equal Rights.
* Elisabeth Freeman (1876–1942) – Suffrage Hike participant and activist.
* Antoinette Funk (1869–1942) – lawyer and executive secretary of the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; supporter of the women's movement in WWI.

### G

* Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) – activist, freethinker, author, co-founder of NWSA.
* 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.
* Josephine Sophia White Griffing (1814–1872) – active in the American Equal Rights Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association.
* Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873) – abolitionist, writer.

### H

* Dr. Blanche Moore Haines (1865–1944), physician; Michigan State chair of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
* Ida Husted Harper (1851–1931) – organizer, major writer and historian of the US suffrage movement.
* Florence Jaffray Harriman (1870–1967) – social reformer, organizer and diplomat.
* 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.
* Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States.
* Elsie Hill (1883–1970) – NWP activist.
* Helena Hill (1875–1958) – NWP activist, jailed for protest.
* Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) – prominent abolitionist, social activist and poet.
* Emily Howland (1827–1929) – philanthropist, educator.

### I

* Inez Haynes Irwin (1873–1970) – co-founder of the College Equal Suffrage League, active in National Woman's Party, wrote the party's history,

### J

* Martha Waldron Janes (1832–1913) – minister, suffragist, columnist.
* Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934) – African American community organizer, creator of the Susan B. Anthony clubs.
* 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.
* Laura M. Johns (1849–1935) – suffragist, journalist.
* Adelaide Johnson (1859–1955) – sculptor who created a monument for suffragists in Washington D.C.
* Maria I. Johnston (1835–1921) — author, journalist, editor and lecturer from Virginia.
* Mary Johnston (1870–1936) – Virginia writer, author, and activist, spoke at the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession.
* Jane Elizabeth Jones (1813–1896) – suffragist, abolitionist, member of the early women's rights movement.
* Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) – socialite, took part in Suffrage Hike, known as "General Jones."
* Amy R. Juengling (1886–1974) – suffragist, educator, and women's rights activist.

### K

* Helen Keller (1880–1968) – author and political activist.
* Florence E. Kollock (1848–1925) – Universalist minister and lecturer.

### L

* Mary Livermore (1820–1905) – journalist and advocate of women's rights.
* Sarah Hunt Lockrey (1863–1929) – physician and suffragist
* Adella Hunt Logan (1863–1915) – African-American intellectual, activist and leading suffragist of the historically black Tuskegee University's Woman's Club.

### M

* Katherine Duer Mackay (1878–1930) – founder of the Equal Franchise Society.
* Eugenia St. John Mann (1847–1932) – ordained minister, evangelist, temperance lecturer, suffragist; President, Kansas Equal Suffrage Association.
* Inez Milholland (1886–1916) – key participant in the National Woman's Party and the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession.
* 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.
* Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) – Quaker, abolitionist; women's rights activist; social reformer.

### N

* John Neal (1793–1876) – writer, critic, first American women's rights lecturer.
* Mary A. Nolan (died 1925) – one of the oldest suffragists active on NWP picket lines.

### O

* Adelina Otero-Warren (1881–1965) – Congressional Union leader in New Mexico, honored on a 2022 American Women quarter.

### P

* 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.
* Mary Hutcheson Page (1860–1940) – Member of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the National Executive Committee of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage. 1910 President of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
* Alice Paul (1885–1977) – one of the leaders of the 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement for the 19th Amendment; founder of the National Woman's Party (NWP); initiator of the Silent Sentinels and Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913; author of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.
* Nanette B. Paul (1866-1928) - suffragist in Washington, D.C.; co-founder of the Susan B. Anthony Foundation.
* Mary Gray Peck (1867–1957) – journalist, suffragist, clubwoman.
* Anita Pollitzer (1894–1975) – photographer, served as National chairman in NWP..

### R

* Joy Young Rogers outside the White HouseJeannette 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.
* Rebecca Hourwich Reyher (1897–1987) – author and lecturer.
* Naomi Sewell Richardson (1892–1993) – African-American suffragist and educator.
* Emma Winner Rogers (1855–1922) – treasurer, National American Woman Suffrage Association; also writer, speaker.
* Joy Young Rogers (1891–1953) – assistant editor of the Suffragist.
* Juliet Barrett Rublee (1875–1966) – birth control advocate, suffragist, and film producer
* Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924) – African-American publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor.

### S

* Helen P. Sanborn (1858-1922) - California suffragist with the First Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, educator
* Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) – birth control activist, sex educator, nurse, established Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
* Florida Scott-Maxwell (1883–1979) – author and suffragist active in the UK.
* May Wright Sewall (1844–1920) – chairperson of the National Woman's Suffrage Association's (NWSA) executive committee from 1882 to 1890.
* Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) – president of National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) from 1904 to 1915.
* Mary Shaw (1854–1929) – early feminist, playwright and actress.
* Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) – initiator of the Seneca Falls Convention, author of the Declaration of Sentiments, co-founder of National Women's Suffrage Association, major pioneer of women's rights in America.
* Doris Stevens (1892–1963) – organizer for NAWSA and the National Woman's Party (NWP), prominent Silent Sentinels participant, author of Jailed for Freedom.
* Lucy Stone (1818–1893) – prominent orator, abolitionist, and a vocal advocate and organizer for the rights for women; the main force behind the American Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman's Journal.

### T

* Helen Taft (1891–1987) – daughter of President William Howard Taft.
* Lydia Taft (1712–1778) – first woman alleged to legally vote in colonial America.
* Minnetta Theodora Taylor (1860–1911) – wrote the lyrics to the National Suffrage Anthem.
* Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) – African-American educator, journalist, and co-founder of the National Association of Colored Women's League.
* M. Carey Thomas (1857–1935) – educator, linguist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College.
* Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson (1872–1959) – author
* Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) – Buffalo and New York activist, later journalist and radio broadcaster
* Ella St. Clair Thompson (1870–1944)
* Minnie J. Terrell Todd (1844–1929) – Nebraska suffragist
* 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
* Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883) – abolitionist, women's rights activist, speaker, gave women's rights speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
* Harriet Tubman (1822–1913) – African-American abolitionist, humanitarian and Union spy during the American Civil War

### V

* Lila Meade Valentine (1865–1921) – education and health care reformer, women's rights activist, and the first president of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
* 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
* 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
* Mabel Vernon (1883–1975) – principal member of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, major organizer for the Silent Sentinels

### W

* Evelyn Wotherspoon Wainwright (1851–1929) – founding member of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party
* Anna C. Wait (1837–1916) – Kansas Equal Suffrage Association
* Sarah E. Wall (1825–1907) – organizer of an anti-tax protest that defended a woman's right not to pay taxation without representation
* Elizabeth Lowe Watson (1842–1927) – president, California Equal Suffrage Association
* Emmeline B. Wells (1828–1921) – journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate, and diarist
* Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) – journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement
* Lilian Welsh (1858–1938) – physician, educator, and advocate for women's health
* Ruza Wenclawska (1889–1977) – factory inspector and trade union organizer
* Marion Craig Wentworth (1872–1942) – playwright
* Nettie L. White (c. 1850 – 1921), president of the District of Columbia Woman Suffrage Association
* Margaret Fay Whittemore (1884–1937) – vice-president of the National Woman's Party 1925
* Emma Howard Wight (1863–1935) – Virginia suffragist; author
* Mary Holloway Wilhite (1831–1892) – physician, philanthropist; woman's suffrage and women's rights leader
* Frances Willard (1839–1898) – leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and International Council of Women, lecturer, writer
* Louise Collier Willcox (1865–1929) – honorary vice-president of the Virginia Equal Suffrage League
* Maud E. Craig Sampson Williams (1880–1958) – suffragette from Texas; formed the El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Equal Franchise League
* Ella B. Ensor Wilson (1838–1913) – social reformer; Kansas suffragist
* 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

## Suffragists by state

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