List of Montana suffragists

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

Groups

• Equal Suffrage Party, formed in 1897.
• Helena Business Women's Suffrage Club.
• Helena Equal Suffrage Club.
• Missoula Teachers' Suffrage Committee.
• Montana Equal Suffrage Association (MESA), created in 1912.
• Montana Men's Equal Suffrage League.
• Montana Woman's Suffrage Association (MWSA), formed in 1895.
• Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

Suffragists

• Lillian Agnew (Great Falls).
• Mary Long Alderson.
• Mary B. Atwater.
• Ida Auerbach.
• Edith Clinch.
• Helen P. Clarke.
• Eva Warren Collier (Bedford).
• Ota E. Cummings (Billings).
• Maria M. Dean (Helena).
• Ella Knowles Haskell (Helena).
• Maggie Smith Hathaway (Ravalli County).
• Hazel Hunkins (Billings).
• Emma Ingalls (Flathead County).
• Grace Rankin Kinney.
• Mary Alderson Long.
• Clara McAdow (Fergus County).
• Mary E. O'Neill (Butte).
• Martha Edgerton Rolfe Plassmann (Great Falls).
• Jeannette Rankin (Missoula County).
• Wellington D. Rankin.
• Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa.
• Harriet P. Sanders.
• Sarepta Sanders (Helena).
• Mittie L. Shoup (Missoula).
• Gertrude Sylvester.
• Jessie Thompson (Bozeman).
• Clara B. Tower.
• Josephine Trigg (Great Falls).
• Elizabeth Donohue Vaughn (Great Falls).
• Mary C. Wheeler (Helena).
• Belle Fligelman Winestine (Helena).

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Joseph Burt Annin.
• Peter Breen.
• William A. Clark.
• John S. Huseby.
• Hiram Knowles.
• Perry McAdow (Fergus County).
• Wellington Rankin.
• Francis E. Sargeant.

Publications

• The Suffrage Daily News, published in 1914 in Helena.
• Woman's Voice, published on suffrage in 1913.

Suffragists campaigning in Montana

• Henry Blackwell.
• Kathryn Blake.
• Carrie Chapman Catt.
• Ida Craft.
• Emma Smith DeVoe.
• Laura A. Gregg.
• Mary Garrett Hay.
• Margaret Hinchey.
• Rosalie Jones.
• Harriet Burton Laidlaw.
• James Lees Laidlaw.
• Gail Laughlin.
• Anna Howard Shaw.
• Frances Willard.

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Montana Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, formed in summer of 1914.
• Travel Club of Great Falls.

Politicians opposing women's suffrage

• Allen Joy.
• Martin Maginnis.
• George L. Ramsey (Gallatin County).
• Joseph K. Toole.

See also

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

References

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