List of Iowa suffragists

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

Groups

• Afro-American Protective Association.
• Boone Equality Club.
• Chariton Equal Suffrage Society.
• Des Moines League of Colored Women Voters, formed in 1912.
• Iowa Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), formed as the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA) in 1870.
• Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.
• Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs (IFWC).
• Iowa State Woman Suffrage Society.
• Men's League for Women's Suffrage, organized in 1910.
• Men's League of Perry.
• Northern Iowa Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1869.
• Political Equality Club of Sioux City, formed in 1889.
• Polk County Suffrage Association.
• Waterloo Suffragette Council.
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

Suffragists

• Mary Newbury Adams.
• Teresa Adams (Davenport).
• Adelaide Ballard.
• Mary A. Beavers (Mount Pleasant).
• Evelyn H. Belden.
• Narcissa T. Bemis.
• Amelia Bloomer (Council Bluffs).
• Sue M. Wilson Brown (Des Moines).
• Martha C. Callanan.
• Margaret W. Campbell.
• Carrie Chapman Catt (Charles City).
• Nettie Sanford Chapin (Marshalltown).
• Mary Jane Coggeshall.
• Fannie Wilson Cooper (Des Moines).
• Mary Darwin (Burlington).
• Keziah Anderson Dorrance (Taylor County).
• Helen Downey.
• Joseph Dugdale (Mount Pleasant).
• Marion Howard Dunham (Burlington).
• Flora Dunlap (Des Moines).
• Susan Frances Nelson Ferree (1844–1919).
• Susan Fessenden (1840–1932) (Sioux City).
• Matilda Fletcher (Council Bluffs).
• Mariana Thompson Folsom.
• Alvah and Martha Frisbie
• Eleanor Gordon (Boone).
• Eliza H. Hunter.
• Caroline Ingham (Kossuth County).
• Harvey Ingham (Kossuth County).
• Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952) – Universalist minister and suffragist.
• Grace Morris Allen Jones (Burlington).
• Jennie A. Kilburne (Adair County).
• Anna B. Lawther (Dubuque).
• James Rush Lincoln.
• Mabel Lodge (Cedar Falls).
• Arabella Mansfield.
• Jennie McCowen (1845–1924) – physician, writer, lecturer, medical journal editor, suffragist.
• Jane Amy McKinney.
• Hattie Moore (Mrs. James F.) Mitchell (1866-1943) - professor of methodology at Drake University, popular speaker at teacher institutes and Chautauquas
• Carrie Dean Pruyn.
• Lizzie Bunnell Read (Algona).
• Gertrude Rush.
• Mary Safford.
• Anna H. Satterly.
• Annie Nowlin Savery (Des Moines).
• Vivian Smith
• Rowena Edson Stevenson (Boone).
• Adeline Morrison Swain.
• Mary Beaumont Welch (Ames).
• Alda Heaton Wilson.
• Henrietta Wilson (Dubuque).
• Mattie Woods.

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Cyrus C. Carpenter.
• William L. Harding.
• William Larrabee.
• Benjamin F. Murray (Winterset).
• Henry O'Connor.
• William G. Wilson (Davis County).

Publications

• Woman's Standard, created in 1886.

Suffragists campaigning in Iowa

• Jane Addams.
• Susan B. Anthony.
• Henry Browne Blackwell.
• Martha H. Brinkerhoff.
• Laura Clay.
• Phoebe Couzins.
• Hannah Tracy Cutler.
• Emma Smith DeVoe.
• Anna Dickinson.
• Frances Dana Gage.
• Helen M. Gougar.
• Laura A. Gregg.
• Ella Harrison.
• Mary Garrett Hay.
• Matilda Hindman.
• Laura M. Johns.
• Addie M. Johnson.
• Elizabeth A. Kingsbury.
• Catharine Waugh McCulloch.
• Henrietta G. Moore.
• Anna Howard Shaw.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
• Sarah Burger Stearns.
• Lucy Stone.
• Harriet Taylor Upton.
• Frances Woods.

See also

• List of American suffragists
• Women's suffrage in Iowa
• Timeline of women's suffrage in Iowa
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

References

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