List of Virginia suffragists

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

Groups

• Bedford Equal Suffrage League.
• Colored Women's Voting Club in Roanoke.
• Equal Suffrage League of Fredericksburg.
• Equal Suffrage League of Highland Springs.
• Equal Suffrage League of Lynchburg.
• Equal Suffrage League of Norfolk.
• Equal Suffrage League of Williamsburg.
• Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, formed in 1909.
• Men's Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, formed in 1912.
• Newport News Equal Suffrage League.
• Virginia Beach National Woman's Party.
• Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, created in 1907.
• Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association.
• Virginia Suffrage Association (formerly Virginia Suffrage Society) formed in 1893.
• Virginia Branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage formed in 1915.

Suffragists

• Pauline Adams (Norfolk).
• Lillie Barbour.
• Janie Porter Barrett (Hampton).
• Kate Waller Barrett (Alexandria).
• Anna Whitehead Bodeker – co-founder and inaugural president of Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association, the first suffrage association in Virginia.
• Kate Langley Bosher (Richmond).
• Rosa Dixon Bowser (Richmond).
• Martha Haines Butt.
• Anne Atkinson Burmeister Chamberlayne
• Adèle Clark (Richmond).
• Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke
• Elizabeth Cooke (Norfolk).
• Edith Clark Cowles (Richmond).
• Anne Clay Crenshaw (Richmond).
• Blanche Culpeper
• Janet Stuart Oldershaw Durham
• Janetta R. FitzHugh (Fredericksburg).
• Ellen Glasgow (Richmond).
• Nora Houston (Richmond).
• Maude Jamison (Norfolk).
• Julia S. Jennings
• Eugenia Jobson.
• Maria I. Johnston (Fredericksburg).
• Mary Johnston (Richmond).
• Emma Lee Kelley
• Fannie Bayly King.
• Orra Henderson Moore Gray Langhorn (Lynchburg).
• Elizabeth Van Lew
• Elizabeth Langhorne Lewis
• Mary Morris Hall Lockwood
• Lucy Randolph Mason (Richmond).
• Nell Mercer (Norfolk).
• Sophie G. Meredith (Richmond).
• Faith W. Morgan.
• Mary-Cooke Branch Munford (Richmond).
• Josephine Mathews Norcom
• Elizabeth Lewis Otey
• Rosewell Page.
• Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton (Roanoke).
• Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon.
• Mary Bell Perkins
• Caroline F. Putnam – abolitionist, teacher, and president of the Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association
• Agnes Dillon Randolph (Richmond).
• Eudora Ramsay Richardson.
• Ralza M. Manly
• Sally Nelson Robins (Richmond).
• Ellen Robinson.
• Ora Brown Stokes.
• Alice Overbey Taylor.
• Ida Mae Thompson (Richmond).
• Clayton Torrence.
• Jessie Fremont Easton Townsend (Norfolk).
• Lyon G. Tyler (Williamsburg).
• Lila Meade Valentine (Richmond).
• Maggie L. Walker (Richmond).
• Roberta Wellford
• Annie Barna Whitner
• Sarah Harvie Wormeley.
• Eugenie Macon Yancey (Bedford).
• Louise Collier Willcox (1865–1929) – honorary vice-president of the Virginia Equal Suffrage League.

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Richard Lewis Brewer, Jr.
• Charles Carlin (originally opposed)
• Howard T. Colvin.
• Howard Cecil Gilmer.
• Thomas Lomax Hunter.
• Allan Jones.
• Wyndham R. Mayo (Norfolk).
• Hill Montague (Richmond).
• John Garland Pollard
• John R. Saunders
• Elbert Lee Trinkle
• John C. Underwood
• Junius E. West
• Westel Willoughby
• Emma Howard Wight.

Places

• Occoquan Workhouse.
• Three Hills.

Publications

• The Virginia Suffrage News, published monthly starting in 1914. Managed by Alice Overbey Taylor.

Suffragists who campaigned in Virginia

• Susan B. Anthony.
• William Jennings Bryan.
• Carrie Chapman Catt.
• Pauline Wright Davis.
• Margaret Foley.
• Matilda Joslyn Gage.
• Joy Montgomery Higgins.
• Josephine Miller.
• Mabel Vernon.
• Emma Howard Wight.
• Elizabeth Upham Yates.

Anti-suffragists in Virginia

• Maria Blair (Richmond).
• Jane M. Rutherford.
• Molly Elliot Seawell
• Catherine Coles Valentine
• Mary Mason Anderson Williams
• Margaret Wilmer

Politicians

• Harry Flood Byrd
• Robert Franklin Leedy.

Groups

• Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (VAOWS), formed in 1912.

See also

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

References

Sources

External links

• Suffragists in Virginia History
• We Demand: Women's Suffrage in Virginia
• Virginia Suffrage issues available online via Virginia Chronicle