List of Hawaii suffragists

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2020)

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## Groups[edit]

* Maui Women's Suffrage Association, formed in 1919.[1]
* National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).[2]
* National Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawai'i (WESAH), formed in 1912.[3]
* Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[4]

## Suffragists[edit]

Emma Nakuina (c. 1904)

* Akaiko Akana.[5]
* Mary Kinimaka Ha'aheo Atcherley.[6]
* Ethel Frances Baldwin.[7]
* Mary Tenney Castle.[8]
* Wilhelmine Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett.[9]
* Mary E. Dillingham Frear.[6]
* Elizabeth Kahanu Kalaniana'ole.[6]
* Margaret Knepper.[6]
* Emilie K. Widemann Macfarlane.[6]
* Louise MacMillan.[10]
* Emma Nakuina.[9]
* Emma Nāwahī.[11]
* Emma Ahuena Taylor.[12]
* Lahilahi Webb.[6]

### Politicians in support of women's suffrage[edit]

* Charles J. McCarthy.[13]
* Joseph Nāwahī.[7]
* William Pūnohu White.[7]
* John E. Bush.[7]
* Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole.[14]

## Suffragists who campaigned in Hawaii[edit]

* Carrie Chapman Catt.[2]
* Almira Hollander Pitman.[14]

## Anti-suffragists in Hawaii[edit]

Groups

* Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women.[15]

## See also[edit]

* Timeline of women's suffrage in Hawaii
* Women's suffrage in Hawaii
* Women's suffrage in states of the United States
* Women's suffrage in the United States

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Large Membership in Suffrage Club". The Maui News. 1919-06-06. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-12-10 - via Newspapers.com. and "Large Membership in Suffrage Club". The Maui News. 1919-06-06. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-12-10 - via Newspapers.com.
2. ^ a b "Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett". Hawai‘i Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemoration. 30 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
3. ^ "Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
4. ^ Marino, Katherine M. (April 2020). "The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement". Origins. 13 (7) - via Ohio State University.
5. ^ "Women Ask Vote and Right to Use it at Municipal Elections". The Honolulu Advertiser. 1919-03-07. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-12-10 - via Newspapers.com. and "Petition Legislature to Grant Suffrage to Women at Early Date". The Honolulu Advertiser. 1919-03-07. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-12-10 - via Newspapers.com.
6. ^ a b c d e f Yasutake 2017, p. 134.
7. ^ a b c d Steele, Julia (October 2020). "Daughters of Haumea". Hana Hou!. 23 (4).
8. ^ "2011 Program". Distinctive Women in Hawaiian History. Retrieved 2020-12-11.
9. ^ a b McGreevy, Nora (13 August 2020). "How the 19th Amendment Complicated the Status and Role of Women in Hawai'i". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
10. ^ Yasutake 2017, p. 133.
11. ^ Yasutake 2017, p. 120.
12. ^ Coren, Ashleigh D.; Cohen, Sara E. (24 August 2020). "Eight Women's Voting History Stories You May Not Know". Because of Her Story. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
13. ^ Yasutake 2017, p. 130.
14. ^ a b Yasutake 2017, p. 128.
15. ^ Yasutake 2017, p. 135.

### Sources[edit]

* Yasutake, Rumi (2017). "Re-Franchising Women of Hawai'i, 1912-1920". In Choy, Catherine Ceniza; Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy (eds.). Gendering the Trans-Pacific World. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 9789004336100.

## External links[edit]

* Wilhelmine Dowsett: Hawai'i Suffrage Pioneer