List of Montana suffragists

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

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* 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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Group of Butte Suffragists in 1914. Left to right: Alice Schwegel, Mary Murphy and Katherine Sullivan

* 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

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* 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

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* The Suffrage Daily News, published in 1914 in Helena.[5]
* Woman's Voice, published on suffrage in 1913.[24]

## Suffragists campaigning in Montana

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* 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

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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

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

## References

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1. ^ Ward 1974, p. 68.
2. ^ Ward 1974, p. 72.
3. ^ Ward 1974, p. 76.
4. ^ a b Baumler et al. 2014, p. 5.
5. ^ a b c d "The Suffrage Daily News (Helena, Mont.) 1914–191?". Library of Congress. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
6. ^ a b c Larson 1973, p. 31.
7. ^ a b Baumler et al. 2014, p. 6.
8. ^ 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.
9. ^ a b Anthony 1902, p. 798.
10. ^ a b c Harper 1922, p. 362.
11. ^ Ward 1974, p. 144.
12. ^ Ward 1974, p. 28.
13. ^ a b c "Suffragists in Montana". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
14. ^ a b c d e f g Anthony 1902, p. 797.
15. ^ Larson 1973, p. 33.
16. ^ a b c d Kohl, Martha (August 2, 2019). "Montana History Revealed: Montana and the Nineteenth Amendment". Montana History Revealed. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
17. ^ a b c Baumler et al. 2014, p. 4.
18. ^ Harper 1922, p. 363.
19. ^ 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.
20. ^ "The Missoula Teachers' Suffrage". Yellowstone Monitor. August 13, 1914. p. 7. Retrieved October 5, 2020 - via Newspapers.com.
21. ^ Harper 1922, p. 360.
22. ^ Winestine 1974, p. 71.
23. ^ Winestine 1974, p. 72.
24. ^ Ward 1974, p. 126.
25. ^ a b c Ward 1974, p. 122.
26. ^ a b Ward 1974, p. 75.
27. ^ Larson 1973, p. 30.
28. ^ a b Larson 1973, p. 34.
29. ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 364.
30. ^ Winestine 1974, p. 73.
31. ^ Larson 1973, p. 26.
32. ^ Ward 1974, p. 142.
33. ^ "Against Women's Suffrage". Great Falls Tribune. May 3, 1907. p. 4. Retrieved October 6, 2020 - via Newspapers.com.
34. ^ Ward 1974, p. 56.
35. ^ 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

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* 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.