Elizabeth Upham Yates

Elizabeth Upham Yates (Yuli 3, 1857 - Disamba 23, 1942) 'yar Amurka ce kuma mai wa'azi a kasar Sin. Har ila yau, ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin mata biyu na farko da suka tsaya takarar ofishi a fadin jihar a tsibirin Rhode .

 Rayuwar farko 
An haifi Elizabeth Upham Yates a Bristol, Maine, 'yar Alexander Yates da Lois Thompson Yates. Ta yi karatun magana a Makarantar Magana ta Boston tare da 'yar wasan kwaikwayo Sarah Cowell Le Moyne,  kuma ta sami lasisi don yin wa'azi a cikin al'adar Cocin Methodist Episcopal. 

 Sana'a 
Daga 1880 zuwa 1885, Elizabeth Upham Yates ta yi aiki a kasar Sin a karkashin kungiyar mata ta Mishan ta kasashen waje. Ta rubuta game da abubuwan da ta samu a matsayinta na mishan a Glimpses into Chinese Homes, wanda aka buga a 1887. 

Elizabeth Upham Yates ta fara ba da lacca don motsin rai da zaɓe a cikin 1890.  Ta yi magana a wani taro na Ƙungiyar Ƙwararrun Mata ta New England a 1895 a Nashua, New Hampshire, a kan wannan shirin kamar Julia Ward Howe da Alice Stone Blackwell . Ta yi tafiya akai-akai a ciki da bayan New England don yin lacca kan shari'ar zaɓe da ƙarfafa ma'aikatan zaɓe a wasu jihohi. 

An zaɓi Yates a matsayin shugabar Ƙungiyar Suffrage na Mata ta Rhode Island a 1909, kuma aka sake zaɓe a 1911 da 1913.  Ta gabatar da jawabi na hudu ga Yuli a dakin taro na birnin Providence, wani sabon abu ga mace a lokacin. Ta yi magana a kan aikinta da ke jagorantar Kwamitin Suffrage na Shugaban kasa a taron kasa na 1914 na Ƙungiyar Mata ta Ƙasar Amirka a Nashville, Tennessee .  Lokacin da aka fara ba wa matan Rhode Island izinin yin rajista don jefa ƙuri'a, ta buga "Wasiƙar Buɗaɗi ga Mata" (1919), tana ƙarfafa mata su kasance da "zukata masu jin daɗi, amma masu hankali" wajen karɓar sabon aikin su na zaɓe. 

Ita ce 'yar takarar jam'iyyar Democratic Party don laftanar gwamna na Rhode Island a 1920,  ɗaya daga cikin mata na farko da suka yi takara a ofishin jihar a Rhode Island (tare da Helen I. Binning, wanda ya yi takarar Sakataren Gwamnati a kan tikitin).  A cikin 1934 ta shiga cikin "kwamitin mata goma" na Carrie Chapman Catt, a cikin takardar koke ga Franklin Delano Roosevelt don shigar da 'yan gudun hijirar Jamus da suka guje wa zalunci na Nazi. 

 Rayuwa ta sirri 
Elizabeth Upham Yates ta rasu a shekara ta 1942 tana da shekaru 85 a duniya. Gidanta a Providence, wanda aka gina a cikin 1913, an jera shi akan National Register of Places Historic a matsayin wani ɓangare na Gundumar Tarihi ta Blackstone Park. 

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 Elizabeth Upham Yates at Find a Grave
Rukuni:Haihuwan 1857
Rukuni:Mutuwar 1942