List of Texas suffragists

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

Groups

• American Woman Suffrage Association, petitions Texas Legislature to allow women's suffrage in 1872.
• Austin Friends of Female Suffrage.
• Austin Woman Suffrage Association.
• Colored Welfare League of Austin.
• Dallas Equal Suffrage Association (DESA), started on March 15, 1913, in Dallas.
• Equal Franchise League of San Antonio.
• El Paso Equal Franchise League.
• El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Enfranchisement League started in 1918.
• Galveston Equal Suffrage Association.
• Galveston Negro Women's Voter League.
• Georgetown Equal Suffrage League, started in 1916.
• Houston Equal Suffrage Association.
• Houston Suffrage League.
• National Woman's Party, Texas chapter started in 1916.
• Negro Women's Voter League (Galveston), formed in 1917.
• Smith County Equal Franchise League (Tyler).
• Texas Equal Rights Association (TERA) formed in 1893.
• Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs endorses suffrage in 1917.
• Texas Woman Suffrage Association, which later becomes the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA) in 1916.
• Waco Equal Franchise Society.
• Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Texas chapter, endorses women's suffrage in 1888.

Suffragists

• Christia Adair.
• Sarah C. Acheson (Denison).
• Ruth Monro Augur (El Paso).
• Jessie Ames (Georgetown).
• Annie Webb Blanton (Houston, Denton).
• Eleanor Brackenridge (San Antonio).
• Hattie Brewer (Dallas).
• Belle Murray Burchill (Fort Worth).
• Belle Critchett (El Paso).
• Minnie Fisher Cunningham.
• Ellen Lawson Dabbs.
• Grace Danforth (Dallas).
• Alzina Orndorff DeGroff (El Paso).
• Louise Dietrich (El Paso).
• Nell Gertrude Horne Doom (Austin).
• A. Caswell Ellis (Austin).
• Mary Heard Ellis (Austin).
• Marin B. Fenwick (San Antonio).
• Elizabeth Finnigan Fain (Houston).
• Annette Finnigan (Houston).
• Ermina Thompson Folsom (Austin).
• Elizabeth Austin Turner Fry (San Antonio).
• Eva Goldsmith (Houston).
• Rena Maverick Green.
• Rebecca Henry Hayes (Dallas).
• Sarah Grimke Wattles Hiatt (Eldorado, Texas).
• Elizabeth Hart Good Houston (Dallas).
• Margaret Bell Houston (Dallas).
• Jovita Idar.
• May Jarvis.
• Mary Kate Hunter (Palestine).
• Ellen Keller (Fort Worth).
• Helen Jarvis Kenyon.
• Edith Hinkle League (Galveston, San Antonio).
• Nona Boren Mahoney (Dallas).
• Alice McFadin McAnulty.
• Jane Y. McCallum.
• Emma J. Mellette (Waco).
• Perle Potter Penfield Newell (Houston).
• Elisabet Ney.
• Anna Pennybacker (Austin, Tyler).
• Eliza E. Peterson (Texarkana).
• Elizabeth Herndon Potter (Tyler).
• Mary Withers Roper (Houston).
• Maude Sampson (El Paso).
• Jane Madden Spell (Waco).
• Florence M. Sterling (Houston).
• Helen M. Stoddard (Fort Worth).
• Sara Isadore Sutherland (Dallas).
• Martha Goodwin Tunstall.
• Anna Elizabeth Leger Walker (Austin).
• Hortense Sparks Ward (Houston).
• Lulu White (Houston).
• Clara M. Snell Wolfe (Austin).

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Jess Alexander Baker.
• Paul Page (Bastrop).
• Charles Culberson.
• Ebenezer Lafayette Dohoney (Paris).
• Albert Jennings Fountain (El Paso).
• Claude Hudspeth (El Paso).
• Governor William P. Hobby.
• John Jones (Amarillo).
• Charles B. Metcalfe.
• Barry Miller (Dallas).
• Titus H. Mundine.
• Lucian Parrish (Henrietta).
• Morris Sheppard.
• Hatton Sumners (Dallas).

Suffragists who campaigned in Texas

• Carrie Chapman Catt, lectured in Houston in 1903.
• Mariana Thompson Folsom, toured Texas in 1884.
• Prison Special, arrived in San Antonio in 1919.
• Anna Howard Shaw, suffrage tour in 1908 and in 1912.
• Ethel Snowden, spoke at the 1913 Texas Equal Suffrage Association convention.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in Houston in 1875.

Places

• Adolphus Hotel, site of annual suffragist luncheon.
• Grand Windsor Hotel, site of the organization of first statewide suffrage group in Texas, 1893.
• Saint Anthony Hotel, site of major women's suffrage convention in 1913.
• Texas State Fair, site of women's suffrage activism.

Publications

• Texas Democrat, suffrage newspaper edited by Dr. A. Caswell Ellis.

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Texas Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (TAOWS) started in 1916.

Individuals

• Joseph Weldon Bailey (Gainesville).
• Ida Darden.
• John Nance Garner.
• Governor James Ferguson.
• Pauline Wells (Brownsville, Texas).
• James B. Wells, Jr. (Brownsville).

See also

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

References

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