List of Maine suffragists

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

Groups

• Bangor Suffrage Center
• Belfast Suffrage League, formed in 1916
• College Equal Suffrage League of Maine, formed in 1913
• Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, and later, National Woman's Party
• Cumberland County Convention of Reformed Men
• Equal Rights Association of Rockland, formed in 1868
• Farmington Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1906
• Maine Federation of Women's Clubs (MFWC)
• Maine Woman Suffrage Association (MWSA), formed in 1873
• The Men's Equal Suffrage League of Maine, formed in 1914
• Portland Equal Franchise League
• Woman Suffrage Association of Portland
• Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), first Maine chapter formed in 1874

Suffragists

• Sophia P. Anthoine (Portland)
• Jane Sophia Appleton (Bangor)
• Hannah Johnston Bailey (Winthrop)
• Katherine Reed Balentine (Portland)
• Camille Lessard Bissonnette (Lewiston)
• Henry Blanchard (Portland)
• Ralph O. Brewster
• Margaret W. Campbell (Hancock County)
• Essie P. Carle (Belfast)
• Sarah G. Crosby (Albion)
• Lucy Hobart Day
• Lydia Neal Dennett (Portland)
• Adelaide Emerson (Ellsworth)
• Fannie J. Fernald (Old Orchard)
• Jennie Fuller (Hartland)
• Abby F. Fulton
• Obadiah Gardner (Augusta)
• Ann F. Jarvis Greely (Ellsworth)
• Isabel Greenwood (Farmington)
• Ira G. Hersey (Houlton)
• Jane Lord Hersom.
• Charlotte Hill (Ellsworth)
• Augusta Merrill Hunt (Portland)
• Benjamin Kingsbury (Portland)
• Deborah Knox Livingston (Bangor)
• Clara Hapgood Nash
• John Neal (Portland)
• Joshua Nye (Augusta)
• Sarah Jane Lincoln O'Brion (Cornish)
• Maud Wood Park (Cape Elizabeth)
• Leonard A. Pierce (Portland)
• Lucy Nicolar Poolaw (Penobscot) (Indian Island)
• Louise Johnson Pratt (Belfast)
• Cordelia A. Quinby (Augusta)
• Olive Rose (Warren)
• Leslie R. Rounds
• Lurana W. Sheldon.
• Lavinia Snow (Rockland)
• Lucy Snow (Rockland)
• Sophronia Snow (Hampden)
• Jane H. Spofford (Hampden)
• Lillian M. N. Stevens (Portland)
• Zenas Thompson (Portland)
• Rebecca Usher (Hollis)
• L. Alfreda Brewster Wallace
• Florence Brooks Whitehouse (Augusta)
• Robert Treat Whitehouse
• William Penn Whitehouse (Augusta)
• Georgietta Julia Nickerson Whitten
• Elizabeth Upham Yates

Politicians supporting women's suffrage in Maine

• Carl E. Milliken

Suffragists who campaigned in Maine

• Susan B. Anthony
• Abby Scott Baker
• Henry B. Blackwell
• Carrie Chapman Catt
• Elizabeth Glendower Evans
• Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
• Diana Hirschler
• Julia Ward Howe
• Augusta Hughston
• Florence Kelley
• Gail Laughlin
• Dora Lewis
• Mary Livermore
• Ettie Lois Simonds Lowell
• Maud Wood Park
• Nancy M. Schoonmaker
• Anna Howard Shaw
• Lucy Stone
• Mary Winsor

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Maine Association Opposed to Suffrage for Women, formed in 1913

People

• Harriet Bird (Yarmouth)
• Sophia C. Brackett (Portland)
• Susannah Bundy Brown (Portland)
• Lucy Cobb (Rockland)
• Margaret L. Dalton (Portland)
• C. T. Ogden (Deering)
• Sewall C. Strout (Portland)

References

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in Maine
• Women's suffrage in Maine
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

Sources