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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.

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Suffragists

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Catharine Paine Blaine (1829–1908) – suffragist, teacher, and pioneer, one of the signers of the Declaration of Sentiments.
  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Helen Keller (1880–1968) – author and political activist.
  • Lillian G. Kohlhamer (1870–1929) – suffragist and peace activist
  • Florence E. Kollock (1848–1925) – Universalist minister and lecturer.

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

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  • 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.

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  • Rose Emmet Young (1869–1941) – suffragist, editor and writer.

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