This is a list of suffragists and suffrage activists working in the United States and its territories. This list includes suffragists who worked across state lines or nationally. See individual state or territory lists for other American suffragists not listed here.
Elnora Monroe Babcock (1852–1934) – pioneer leader in the suffrage movement; chair of the NAWSA press department.[15]
Addie L. Ballou (1838-1916) - activist, journalist and lecturer on temperance, women's suffrage, and prison reform.[16]
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) – African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the civil rights movement.[17]
Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) – women's rights and temperance advocate; her name was associated with women's clothing reform style known as bloomers.[26]
Marietta Bones (1842–1901) – suffragist, social reformer, philanthropist.[27]
Helen Varick Boswell (1869–1942) – member of the Woman's National Republican Association and the General Federation of Women's Clubs.[28]
Lucy Gwynne Branham (1892–1966) – professor, organizer, lobbyist, active in the National Women's Party and its Silent Sentinels, daughter of suffragette Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham.[29]
Olympia Brown (1835–1926) – activist, first woman to graduate from a theological school, as well as becoming the first full-time ordained minister, suffrage speaker.[30]
Mary Barr Clay (1839–1924) – first Kentuckian to hold the office of president in a national woman's organization (American Woman Suffrage Association), and the first Kentucky woman to speak publicly on women's rights.[38]
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights.[39]
Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement.[40][41]
Lillian Feickert (1877–1945) – suffragette; first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate[55]
Mary Fels (1863–1953) – philanthropist, suffragist, Georgist.[56][57]
Sara Bard Field (1882–1974) – active with the National Advisory Council, National Woman's Party, and in Oregon and Nevada; crossed the US to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures to President Wilson.[58]
Margaret Foley (1875–1957) – working class suffragist, active in Massachusetts and campaigning in other states.[59]
Helen Hoy Greeley (1878–1965) – Secretary, New Jersey Next Campaign (1915), stump speaker, organizer, and mobilizer in California and Oregon campaigns (1911), speaker for Women's Political Union in NYC.[64][65]
Josephine Sophia White Griffing (1814–1872) – active in the American Equal Rights Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association.[66]
Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper.[70]
Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934) – African American community organizer, creator of the Susan B. Anthony clubs.[77]
Izetta Jewel (1883–1978) – stage actress, women's rights activist, politician and first woman to second the nomination of a presidential candidate at a major American political party convention.[78]
Belle Kearney (1863–1939) – speaker and lobbyist for the National American Woman Suffrage Association; first woman elected to the Mississippi State Senate
Edna Buckman Kearns (1882–1934) – National Woman's Party campaigner, known for her horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon (now in the collection of New York State Museum)
Mary Morton Kehew (1859–1918) – labor/social reformer and suffragist from Boston
Eliza D. Keith (1854–1939) – educator, writer, journalist; founding member/officer, Susan B. Anthony Club, San Francisco, California
Helen Keller (1880–1968) – author and political activist
Abby Kelley (1811–1887) – abolitionist, radical social reformer, fundraiser, lecturer and organizer for the American Anti-Slavery Society
Clara Chan Lee (1886–1993) – first Chinese American to register to vote in the US, 8 November 1911[81]
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1896–1966) – suffragist, advocate for women's rights and for the Chinese immigrant community
Dora Lewis (1862–1928) – in 1913 became an executive member of the National Women's Party; in 1918 became their chairwoman of finance; in 1919 became their national treasurer; in 1920 headed their ratification committee
Indiana Little (1897–1970) – led hundreds of people on a march to register to vote in Birmingham, Alabama on January 18, 1926. They were denied, and she was arrested.
Mary Livermore (1820–1905) – journalist and advocate of women's rights
Deborah Knox Livingston (1876–1923) – Scottish-born American temperance and suffrage activist; chair, Maine State Suffrage Campaign
Adella Hunt Logan (1863–1915) – African-American intellectual, activist and leading suffragist of the historically black Tuskegee University's Woman's Club
Florence Luscomb (1887–1985) – architect and prominent leader of Massachusetts suffragists
Theresa Malkiel (1874–1949) – labor organizer and suffragist
Eugenia St. John Mann (1847–1932) – ordained minister, evangelist, temperance lecturer, suffragist; President, Kansas Equal Suffrage Association[82]
Arabella Mansfield (1846–1911) – first female lawyer in the United States, chaired the Iowa Women's Suffrage Convention in 1870, and worked with Susan B. Anthony
Anne Henrietta Martin (1875–1951) – Vice-chairman of National Woman's Party, arrested as a Silent Sentinel, president Nevada Equal Franchise Society, first US woman to run for Senate
Ellen A. Martin (1847–1916) – first woman to successful cast a vote in Illinois in 1891, under a loophole in the local law
Harriet May Mills (1857–1936) – prominent civil rights leader, played a major role in women's rights movement
Abby Crawford Milton (1881–1991) – traveled throughout Tennessee making speeches and organizing suffrage leagues in small communities; in 1920, she, along with Anne Dallas Dudley and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution[86][87]
Virginia Minor (1824–1894) – co-founder and president of the Woman's Suffrage Association of Missouri; unsuccessfully argued in Minor v. Happersett (1874 Supreme Court case) that the Fourteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote
Henrietta G. Moore (1844–1940) – Universalist minister, educator, temperance activist; president, Equal Suffrage Club of Springfield, Ohio
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) – zoologist, philosopher, educator and socialist[89]
Mary L. Moreland (1859–1918) – minister, evangelist, suffragist, author
Esther Hobart Morris (1814–1902) – first female Justice of the Peace in the United States
Mary Foulke Morrisson (1879–1971) – organizer of 1916 suffrage parade in Chicago at the Republican national Convention; founder of chapters of the League of Women Voters
Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) – Quaker, abolitionist; women's rights activist; social reformer
Martha H. Mowry (1818–1899) – Rhode Island physician and suffragist
Ella Uphay Mowry (1865–1923) – Kansas suffragist and the first female gubernatorial candidate in Kansas
Maud Wood Park (1871–1955) – founder of the College Equal Suffrage League, co-founder of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government (BESAGG); worked for passage of the 19th Amendment
Mary Virginia Proctor (1854–1927) – journalist, philanthropist, Ohio suffragist, temperance activist
Jennie Phelps Purvis (1831–1924) – writer, temperance reformer; secretary of the California state suffrage association
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Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973) – first U.S. female member of Congress (R) Montana. Rankin opened congressional debate on a Constitutional amendment granting universal suffrage to women, and voted for the resolution in 1919, which would become the 19th Amendment.
Elizabeth Bunnell Read (1832–1909) – published The Mayflower, the only suffrage paper published during the American Civil War;[97] Vice-president, Indiana State Woman Suffrage Society; President of the Iowa State Woman Suffrage Society[98]
Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector (1882–1973) – first licensed female architect in the state of Ohio and the only female architect practicing in central Ohio between 1900 and 1930
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924) – African-American publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor
Ruth Logan Roberts (1891–1968) – suffragist, activist, YWCA leader, and host of a salon in Harlem
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Nina Samorodin (1892–1981) – Russian-born NWP member, executive secretary of National Labor Alliance for Trade Relations with and Recognition of Russia, secretary of Women's Trade-Union League
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) – birth control activist, sex educator, nurse, established Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Annie Nowlin Savery (1831–1891) – English-born Iowa suffragist active from the 1860s
Julia Sears (1840–1929) – pioneering academic and first woman in the US to head a public college, now Minnesota State University
Abby Hadassah Smith (1797–1879) – early American suffragist from Connecticut who campaigned for property and voting rights
Eliza Kennedy Smith, also known as Mrs. R. Templeton Smith (1889–1964) – suffragist, civic activist, and government watchdog in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and president of the Allegheny County League of Women Voters
Jane Norman Smith (1874–1953) – suffragist and reformer. Chairman of the National Woman's Party from 1927 to 1929.
Judith Winsor Smith (1821–1921) – president of the East Boston Woman Suffrage League
May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858–1943) – educator and first woman to obtain a doctoral degree in philosophy in the United States
The Smiths of Glastonbury – family of 6 women in Connecticut who were active in championing suffrage, property rights, and education for women
Helen Ekin Starrett (1840–1920) – author, journalist, educator, editor, business owner, lecturer, inventor, poet, pioneer suffragist, and one of the two state delegates from the 1869 National Convention to attend the Victory Convention in 1920
Sarah Burger Stearns (1836–1904) – first president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association
Rowena Granice Steele (1824–1901) – advocate of woman suffrage, as a speaker and writer
Doris Stevens (1892–1963) – organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and the National Woman's Party, prominent Silent Sentinels participant, author of Jailed for Freedom
Sara Yorke Stevenson (1847–1921) – archaeologist and Egyptologist, active in the Philadelphia suffrage movement
Jane Agnes Stewart (1860–1944), author, editor; inventor of the first equal rights calendar
Elizabeth Richards Tilton (1834–1897) – suffragist, founder of the Brooklyn Women's Club, poetry editor of The Revolution, hellish scandal
Annie Rensselaer Tinker (1884–1924) – suffragist, volunteer nurse in World War I, and philanthropist
Augusta Lewis Troup (1848–1920) – women's rights activist and journalist who advocated for equal pay, better working conditions for women, and women's right to vote
Grace Wilbur Trout (1864–1955) – President of the Illinois Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, spearheaded the 1913 effort granting Illinois women the right to vote
Narcissa Cox Vanderlip, née Mabel Narcissa Cox (1879–1966) – leading New York suffragist and co-founder of the New York State League of Women Voters[105][106][107]
Amelie Veiller Van Norman (1844–1920), educator; president, Joan of Arc Suffrage League; vice-president, New York County Suffrage League; member, Suffrage Party, New York City
Mina Van Winkle (1875–1932) – crusading social worker, groundbreaking police lieutenant and national leader in the protection of girls and other women during the law enforcement and judicial process
Alice Ames Winter (1865–1944) – litterateur, author, clubwoman, suffragist
Emma Wold (1871–1950) – president of the College Equal Suffrage Association in Oregon, later headquarters secretary of the National Woman's Party
Clara Snell Wolfe (1872–1970) – 1st vice-chairman National Woman's Party and chairman Ohio Branch
Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) – women's rights activist, first woman to speak before a committee of Congress, first female candidate for President of the United States, one of the first women to start a weekly newspaper (Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly,) activist for labor reforms, advocate of free love
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