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List of Montana suffragists
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This is a list of Montana suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Montana.
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Groups
[edit]- Equal Suffrage Party, formed in 1897.[1]
- Helena Business Women's Suffrage Club.[2]
- Helena Equal Suffrage Club.[3]
- Missoula Teachers' Suffrage Committee.[4]
- Montana Equal Suffrage Association (MESA), created in 1912.[5]
- Montana Men's Equal Suffrage League.[5]
- Montana Woman's Suffrage Association (MWSA), formed in 1895.[6]
- Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[7]
Suffragists
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- Lillian Agnew (Great Falls).[8]
- Mary Long Alderson.[8]
- Mary B. Atwater.[9]
- Ida Auerbach.[10]
- Edith Clinch.[11]
- Helen P. Clarke.[8]
- Eva Warren Collier (Bedford).[12]
- Ota E. Cummings (Billings).[13]
- Maria M. Dean (Helena).[14]
- Ella Knowles Haskell (Helena).[15]
- Maggie Smith Hathaway (Ravalli County).[16]
- Hazel Hunkins (Billings).[16]
- Emma Ingalls (Flathead County).[16]
- Grace Rankin Kinney.[10]
- Mary Alderson Long.[7]
- Clara McAdow (Fergus County).[17]
- Mary E. O'Neill (Butte).[13]
- Martha Edgerton Rolfe Plassmann (Great Falls).[8]
- Jeannette Rankin (Missoula County).[16]
- Wellington D. Rankin.[18]
- Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa.[19]
- Harriet P. Sanders.[6]
- Sarepta Sanders (Helena).[6]
- Mittie L. Shoup (Missoula).[20]
- Gertrude Sylvester.[8]
- Jessie Thompson (Bozeman).[13]
- Clara B. Tower.[21]
- Josephine Trigg (Great Falls).[8]
- Elizabeth Donohue Vaughn (Great Falls).[8]
- Mary C. Wheeler (Helena).[10]
- Belle Fligelman Winestine (Helena).[22]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
[edit]- Joseph Burt Annin.[23]
- Peter Breen.[14]
- William A. Clark.[14]
- John S. Huseby.[9]
- Hiram Knowles.[14]
- Perry McAdow (Fergus County).[17]
- Wellington Rankin.[5]
- Francis E. Sargeant.[14]
Publications
[edit]- The Suffrage Daily News, published in 1914 in Helena.[5]
- Woman's Voice, published on suffrage in 1913.[24]
Suffragists campaigning in Montana
[edit]- Henry Blackwell.[17]
- Kathryn Blake.[25]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[26]
- Ida Craft.[25]
- Emma Smith DeVoe.[27]
- Laura A. Gregg.[28]
- Mary Garrett Hay.[26]
- Margaret Hinchey.[4]
- Rosalie Jones.[25]
- Harriet Burton Laidlaw.[29]
- James Lees Laidlaw.[29]
- Gail Laughlin.[28]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[30]
- Frances Willard.[31]
Anti-suffragists
[edit]Groups
- Montana Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, formed in summer of 1914.[32]
- Travel Club of Great Falls.[33]
Politicians opposing women's suffrage
- Allen Joy.[14]
- Martin Maginnis.[14]
- George L. Ramsey (Gallatin County).[34]
- Joseph K. Toole.[35]
See also
[edit]- Timeline of women's suffrage in Montana
- Women's suffrage in Montana
- Women's suffrage in the United States
References
[edit]- ^ Ward 1974, p. 68.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 72.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 76.
- ^ a b Baumler et al. 2014, p. 5.
- ^ a b c d "The Suffrage Daily News (Helena, Mont.) 1914–191?". Library of Congress. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
- ^ a b c Larson 1973, p. 31.
- ^ a b Baumler et al. 2014, p. 6.
- ^ a b c d e f g Inbody, Kristen (November 6, 2018). "Voted? Thank a Montana Suffragist". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved March 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com."Suffragists". Great Falls Tribune. November 6, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Anthony 1902, p. 798.
- ^ a b c Harper 1922, p. 362.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 144.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 28.
- ^ a b c "Suffragists in Montana". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g Anthony 1902, p. 797.
- ^ Larson 1973, p. 33.
- ^ a b c d Kohl, Martha (August 2, 2019). "Montana History Revealed: Montana and the Nineteenth Amendment". Montana History Revealed. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
- ^ a b c Baumler et al. 2014, p. 4.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 363.
- ^ Hitchcock, Calyn. "Biographical Sketch of Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa," in Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States: "Part III: Mainstream Suffragists—National American Woman Suffrage Association." Ann Arbor, Michigan: Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company, retrieved online May 9, 2021.
- ^ "The Missoula Teachers' Suffrage". Yellowstone Monitor. August 13, 1914. p. 7. Retrieved October 5, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 360.
- ^ Winestine 1974, p. 71.
- ^ Winestine 1974, p. 72.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 126.
- ^ a b c Ward 1974, p. 122.
- ^ a b Ward 1974, p. 75.
- ^ Larson 1973, p. 30.
- ^ a b Larson 1973, p. 34.
- ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 364.
- ^ Winestine 1974, p. 73.
- ^ Larson 1973, p. 26.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 142.
- ^ "Against Women's Suffrage". Great Falls Tribune. May 3, 1907. p. 4. Retrieved October 6, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Ward 1974, p. 56.
- ^ Inbody, Kristen (November 8, 2014). "Women's suffrage: Montana backers targeted their message to each group they spoke with". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
Sources
[edit]- Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
- Baumler, Ellen; Ferguson, Laura K.; Foley, Jodie; Hanshew, Annie; Jabour, Anya; Kohl, Martha; Walter, Marcella Sherfy (Summer 2014). "Women's History Matters: The Montana Historical Society's Suffrage Centennial Project". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 64 (2): 3–20, 91–92. JSTOR 24419894.
- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
- Larson, T. A. (Winter 1973). "Montana Women and the Battle for the Ballot". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 23 (1): 24–41. JSTOR 4517748.
- Ward, Doris Buck (1974). The Winning of Woman Suffrage in Montana (PDF) (Master of Arts in History thesis). Montana State University.
- Winestine, Belle Fligelman (Summer 1974). "Mother Was Shocked". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 24 (3): 70–79. JSTOR 4517906.
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