# List of Texas suffragists

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

## Groups

* Flier for the second annual convention of the Texas Equal Rights Association (TERA) in June of 1894American Woman Suffrage Association, petitions Texas Legislature to allow women's suffrage in 1872.
* Austin Friends of Female Suffrage.
* Austin Woman Suffrage Association.
* Colored Welfare League of Austin.
* Dallas Equal Suffrage Association (DESA), started on March 15, 1913, in Dallas.
* Equal Franchise League of San Antonio.
* El Paso Equal Franchise League.
* El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Enfranchisement League started in 1918.
* Galveston Equal Suffrage Association.
* Galveston Negro Women's Voter League.
* Georgetown Equal Suffrage League, started in 1916.
* Houston Equal Suffrage Association.
* Houston Suffrage League.
* National Woman's Party, Texas chapter started in 1916.
* Negro Women's Voter League (Galveston), formed in 1917.
* Smith County Equal Franchise League (Tyler).
* Texas Equal Rights Association (TERA) formed in 1893.
* Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs endorses suffrage in 1917.
* Texas Woman Suffrage Association, which later becomes the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA) in 1916.
* Waco Equal Franchise Society.
* Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Texas chapter, endorses women's suffrage in 1888.

## Suffragists

* Christia Adair.
* Sarah C. Acheson (Denison).
* Jessie Ames (Georgetown).
* Annie Webb Blanton (Houston, Denton).
* Eleanor Brackenridge (San Antonio).
* Hattie Brewer (Dallas).
* Belle Murray Burchill (Fort Worth).
* Belle Critchett (El Paso).
* Minnie Fisher Cunningham.
* Ellen Lawson Dabbs.
* Grace Danforth (Dallas).
* Alzina Orndorff DeGroff (El Paso).
* Louise Dietrich (El Paso).
* Nell Gertrude Horne Doom (Austin).
* A. Caswell Ellis (Austin).
* Mary Heard Ellis (Austin).
* Marin B. Fenwick (San Antonio).
* Elizabeth Finnigan Fain (Houston).
* Annette Finnigan (Houston).
* Ermina Thompson Folsom (Austin).Jane Y. McCallum
* Elizabeth Austin Turner Fry (San Antonio).
* Eva Goldsmith (Houston).
* Rena Maverick Green.
* Rebecca Henry Hayes (Dallas).
* Sarah Grimke Wattles Hiatt (Eldorado, Texas).
* Elizabeth Hart Good Houston (Dallas).
* Margaret Bell Houston (Dallas).
* Jovita Idar.
* May Jarvis.
* Mary Kate Hunter (Palestine).
* Ellen Keller (Fort Worth).
* Helen Jarvis Kenyon.
* Edith Hinkle League (Galveston, San Antonio).
* Nona Boren Mahoney (Dallas).
* Alice McFadin McAnulty.
* Jane Y. McCalllum.
* Emma J. Mellette (Waco).
* Perle Potter Penfield Newell (Houston).
* Elisabet Ney.
* Anna Pennybacker (Austin, Tyler).
* Eliza E. Peterson (Texarkana).
* Elizabeth Herndon Potter (Tyler).
* Mary Withers Roper (Houston).
* Maude Sampson (El Paso).
* Jane Madden Spell (Waco).
* Florence M. Sterling (Houston).
* Helen M. Stoddard (Fort Worth).
* Sara Isadore Sutherland (Dallas).
* Martha Goodwin Tunstall.
* Anna Elizabeth Leger Walker (Austin).
* Hortense Sparks Ward (Houston).
* Lulu White (Houston).
* Clara M. Snell Wolfe (Austin).

### Politicians supporting women's suffrage

* Jess Alexander Baker.
* Paul Page (Bastrop).
* Charles Culberson.
* Ebenezer Lafayette Dohoney (Paris).
* Albert Jennings Fountain (El Paso).
* Claude Hudspeth (El Paso).
* Governor William P. Hobby.
* John Jones (Amarillo).
* Charles B. Metcalfe.
* Barry Miller (Dallas).
* Titus H. Mundine.
* Lucian Parrish (Henrietta).
* Morris Sheppard.
* Hatton Sumners (Dallas).

## Suffragists who campaigned in Texas

* Carrie Chapman Catt, lectured in Houston in 1903.
* Mariana Thompson Folsom, toured Texas in 1884.
* Prison Special, arrived in San Antonio in 1919.
* Anna Howard Shaw, suffrage tour in 1908 and in 1912.
* Ethel Snowden, spoke at the 1913 Texas Equal Suffrage Association convention.
* Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in Houston in 1875.

## Places

* Adolphus Hotel, site of annual suffragist luncheon.
* Grand Windsor Hotel, site of the organization of first statewide suffrage group in Texas, 1893.
* Saint Anthony Hotel, site of major women's suffrage convention in 1913.
* Texas State Fair, site of women's suffrage activism.

## Publications

* Texas Democrat, suffrage newspaper edited by Dr. A. Caswell Ellis.

## Anti-suffragists
### Groups

* Texas Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (TAOWS) started in 1916.

### Individuals

* Joseph Weldon Bailey (Gainesville).
* Ida Darden.
* John Nance Garner.
* Governor James Ferguson.
* Pauline Wells (Brownsville, Texas).
* James B. Wells, Jr. (Brownsville).