List of Alaska suffragists

This is a list of Alaska suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in the U.S. territory, and later state, of Alaska.

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## Groups

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Alaska Native Sisterhood in Douglas, Alaska, November 19, 1921

* Alaska Native Brotherhood, formed in 1912.[1]
* Alaska Native Sisterhood, formed in 1915.[1]
* National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).[2]
* Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[3]

## Suffragists and other voting rights advocates

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* Ada Brownell (Seward).[4]
* Ida E. Green (Seward).[4]
* Margaret Keenan Harrais (Skagway).[5]
* Cornelia Templeton Hatcher (Knik).[3][5]
* Milo Kelly (Knik).[4]
* Emma Lefevre (Skagway).[5]
* Lena Morrow Lewis (Fairbanks).[6][5]
* Clara Michener (Ketchikan).[5]
* Francis Turner Pedersen (Seward).[4]
* Harriet Pullen (Skagway).[7]
* Lucy Record Spaeth (Ketchikan).[5]
* Arthur G. Stroup (Sitka).[2]
* Lulu Thompson (Juneau).[5]

### Indigenous voting rights activists

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* Tillie Paul (Tlingit).[8]
* William Paul (Tlingit).[9]

## See also

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* Timeline of women's suffrage in Alaska
* Women's suffrage in Alaska
* Native Americans and women's suffrage in the United States
* Women's suffrage in states of the United States
* Women's suffrage in the United States

## References

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1. ^ a b Sostaric, Katarina (October 12, 2015). "Alaska Native Sisterhood celebrates 100th anniversary in Wrangell". KTOO. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
2. ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 713.
3. ^ a b Lapka, Alyssa (March 13, 2019). "The Life of Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
4. ^ a b c d Beeton, Beverly; Parham, R. Bruce (July 2020). "Votes for Women, Woman Suffrage in Alaska: A Resource List". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
5. ^ a b c d e f g Carney, Amy. "Alaska's Suffrage Star: Home". Alaska Libraries, Archives, Museums. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
6. ^ "Lena Morrow Lewis". Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
7. ^ Spude 2015, p. 223-224.
8. ^ "Tillie Paul Tamaree & the Tlingit Community". Presbyterian Historical Society. September 17, 2020. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
9. ^ Cole 1992, p. 432.

### Sources

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* Cole, Terrence M. (November 1992). "Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act". Western Historical Quarterly. 23 (4): 429–449\. doi:10.2307/970301. JSTOR 970301. S2CID 163528642.
* Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
* Spude, Catharine Holder (2015). Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806149974.