List of Wisconsin suffragists
This is a list of Wisconsin suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Wisconsin.
Groups
- Centralia Equal Suffrage Association, founded in 1882.[1]
- Grand Rapids Equal Suffrage Association, founded in 1882.[1]
- Madison Equal Suffrage Association (MESA), founded in 1879.[1]
- Marathon County Woman Suffrage Association, founded in 1879.[1]
- Men's League for Women's Suffrage, formed in 1911.[2]
- Mukwonago Woman Suffrage Association, founded in 1880.[1]
- National Woman's Party branch, founded in 1917.[1]
- Olympic Club, founded in 1882 in Milwaukee.[1]
- Political Equality League, formed in 1911.[3]
- Political Equality League, African American branch in Milwaukee.[4]
- Richland Center Women's Club, organized in 1870.[5]
- South Side Woman Suffrage Association, founded in 1882 in Milwaukee.[1]
- Whitewater Woman Suffrage Club, founded in 1882.[1]
- Woman's Club of Baraboo, Wisconsin.[6]
- Woman Suffrage Association at Mosinee, founded in 1882.[1]
- Woman Suffrage Association of Wisconsin (WSAW), founded in 1869.[1] Later, in 1882, it is known as the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association (WWSA).[1]
Suffragists
- Mathilde Franziska Anneke (Milwaukee)[7]
- Harriet Bain (Kenosha)[8]
- Stella Baker (Suffragist) (Dexterville)[8]
- Emma Curtiss Bascom (Madison)[8]
- John Bascom (Madison)[8]
- Mary W. Bentley (Marathon)[8]
- Meta Berger (Milwaukee)[9]
- Emma Brown (Fort Atkinson)[1][10]
- Olympia Brown (Racine)[11]
- Vie H. Campbell (Evansville)[8]
- Carrie Chapman Catt (Ripon)[7]
- Augusta Chapin (Milwaukee)[12]
- Helen Holmes Charleton (Broadhead)[8]
- Edna Phillips Chynoweth (Madison)[8]
- Clara Bewick Colby (Madison)[11]
- Alice B. Curtis (Milwaukee)[8]
- James Densmore (Oshkosh)[13]
- Mary A. Derrick (Brodhead)[8]
- Emma Smith DeVoe[8]
- Martha Parker Dingee (Racine)[14][15]
- Nellie Donaldson[16]
- Marion V. Dudley (Milwaukee)[8]
- Almah Jane Frisby (Milwaukee)[8]
- Zona Gale (Portage)[7]
- Lavinia Goodell (Janesville)[8]
- Hattie Tyng Griswold (Columbus)[8]
- Sophie Gudden (Grand Rapids)[8]
- Helen H. Haight (Waukesha)[7]
- Alura Collins Hollister (Mukwonago)[8]
- Jessie Jack Hooper (Oshkosh)[11]
- Carrie S. Cook Horton (Milwaukee)[4]
- Ada James (Richland Center)[17][11]
- Laura Briggs James (Richland Center)[8]
- Sarah James (Oshkosh)[8]
- Rachel Szold Jastrow (Madison)[18]
- Charlotte Jordan (Kenosha)[8]
- Mabel Judd (Lancaster)[8]
- Angie King (Janesville)[8]
- Georgiana J. Koppke (Baraboo)[8]
- Belle Case La Follette (Summit, Baraboo, Madison)[11]
- Fola La Follette (Madison)[19]
- Lucinda Lake (Juda)[8]
- Jessie Luther (Madison)[8]
- Henry Doty Maxon (Menominee)[20]
- Maud Leonard McCreery (Green Bay)[8]
- Helen Farnsworth Mears (Oshkosh)[21]
- Sarah Munro (Milwaukee)[8]
- Meda Neubecker (Waukesha)[8]
- Helen R. Olin (Madison)[8]
- Nellie Mann Opdale (La Crosse)[22]
- Hanna Patchin (New London)[8]
- Mary G. Pearce (Milwaukee)[8]
- Lila Peckham (Milwaukee)[1]
- Nora Perkins (Milwaukee)[8]
- Susan Miller Quackenbush (Portage)[23]
- Sarah A. Richards (Milwaukee)[8]
- Emma Robinson (Kenosha)[8]
- Jane Rogers (Milwaukee)[8]
- Ellen Alida Rose[24]
- Mary Stebbins Savage (Porter; Milwaukee)[25][26]
- Lutie Stearns (Milwaukee)[7]
- Sophie Stathearn (Kaukauna)[8]
- Vandalia Varnum Thomas[27]
- Mary Swain Wagner (Milwaukee)[8]
- Frances McDonnell Wentworth (Racine)[8]
- Pauline Wies (Milwaukee)[28]
- Gwendolen Brown Willis (Milwaukee)[8]
- Eliza Wilson (Menomonee)[8]
- Belle Winestine (Madison)[29]
- Laura Ross Wolcott (Milwaukee)[11]
- Edna Wright (Milwaukee)[8]
- Theodora W. Youmans (Waukesha)[30]
Politicians who supported women's suffrage
- David Cooper Ayres (Howard) 1872 Wisconsin Blue Book "Universal Suffrage, (Female inclusive)"
- Victor L. Berger (Milwaukee)[31]
- John T. Dow [32]
- Lucius Fairchild[33]
- Hamilton H. Gray (Lafayette County)[34]
- David G. James (Richland Center)[8]
- Robert La Follette[35]
- William C. Whitford [36]
Places
Publications
- Die Deutsche Frauen-Zeitung.[38]
- Oshkosh True Democrat.[1]
- Southport Telegraph.[1]
- Wisconsin Chief.[1][39]
- Wisconsin Citizen.[1]
Suffragists campaigning in Wisconsin
- Susan B. Anthony.[36]
- Henry Browne Blackwell.[1]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[40]
- Emma Smith DeVoe.[41]
- Crystal Eastman.[8]
- Margaret Foley.[42]
- Lydia Folger Fowler.[1]
- Harriet Grim.[43]
- Mary E. Haggart.[20]
- Elizabeth Boynton Harbert.[44]
- Julia Ward Howe.[20]
- Elizabeth A. Kingsbury.[45]
- Mary Livermore.[36]
- Alice Ball Loomis.[16]
- Catharine Waugh McCulloch.[44]
- Clarina I. H. Nichols.[1]
- Maud Wood Park.[16]
- Elizabeth Lyle Saxon.[44]
- May Wright Sewall.[20]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[20]
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[36]
- Lucy Stone.[1]
- Alice L. Thompson Waytes.[4][46]
See also
- Timeline of women's suffrage in Wisconsin
- Women's suffrage in Wisconsin
- Women's suffrage in states of the United States
- Women's suffrage in the United States
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