This is a list of notable California suffragists who were politically active before and during the successful Proposition 4 in 1911 which gave women won the right to vote.

Groups

California Equal Suffrage Association California Political Equality League California Woman Suffrage Society Congressional Union for Women Suffrage Fannie Jackson Coppin Club Los Angeles Forum of Colored Women. National American Woman Suffrage Association National Woman's Party Political Equality Club of Alameda Votes for Women Club Women's Christian Temperance Union Woman's Club of Palo Alto Young Women's Suffrage Club

Early 19th century suffragists

Anna Dickinson Laura de Force Gordon Georgiana Bruce Kirby Emily Pitts Stevens Ellen Clark Sargent Elizabeth Lowe Watson

Suffragists in the 1896 campaign

Naomi Anderson Alida Avery Addie Ballou James H. Barry Nellie Holbrook Blinn Ada Chastina Bowles Elinor Majors Carlisle Jeanne Carr Thomas V. Cator Ina Donna Coolbrith Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper Henry Clay Dibble Nellie Blessing Eyster Clara Shortridge Foltz Sarah Dix Hamlin Ida Harper Harriet Hobe Emma Shafter Howard Sarah Knox-Goodrich Eliza D. Keith Sara Lemmon Margaret V. Longley Agnes M. Manning Alice Moore McComas Frances W. McLean Kate Moody Mabel V. Osbourne Mary Goldsmith Prag Jennie Phelps Purvis Anna M. Morrison Reed. Ellen Clark Sargent Rebecca Spring Jane Lathrop Stanford Anna Strunsky Beaumelle Sturtevant-Peet Rowena Granice Steele. Mary Louise Swett Laura Lyon White Charlotte Anita Whitney Eliza Tucker Wilkes Elizabeth Yates

Suffragists in the 1911 campaign

Minnie Sharkey Abrams Charles F. Aked Gertrude Atherton Mary Austin Charlotte Baker Bertha Hirsch Baruch – writer, president of the Los Angeles Suffrage Association. Helen Valeska Bary (1888–1973) – suffragist, researcher, and social reformer Bessie Beatty Elia Costillo Bennett Annie Ellicott Kennedy Bidwell Isabella Williams Blaney (1854–1933) – suffragist, politician. John Hyde Braly Eva Carter Buckner (Los Angeles). Mary Ryerson Butin (1857–1944) – physician; California suffragist. Lillian Harris Coffin Dora K. Crittenden Constance Dean Mabel Deering Maria de Lopez Katherine Philips Edson (1870–1933) – social worker and feminist, worked to add women's suffrage to the California State Constitution. Mary Fairbrother Katherine Felton Susan Fenton Londa Stebbins Fletcher Clara Shortridge Foltz Mary Emily Foy Rose M. French Mary T. Gamage Elizabeth Sears Gerberding Mary Simpson Gibson Charlotte Perkins Gilman Thomas Edward Hayden Dora Haynes John Randolph Haynes Phoebe Apperson Hearst Willa Henry Sarah Huston (1848-1926), newspaper editor and publisher

Emma C. Laugenour (1842-1919), philanthropist and social reformer; pioneer suffragist and the foremost worker for its cause in Yolo County

Gail Laughlin Mary McHenry Keith Elizabeth Kenney Elizabeth Thatcher Kent Louise La Rue Clara Chan Lee (1886–1993) – first Chinese American to register to vote in the US, 8 November 1911 Austin Lewis Jack London Mary Theresa Longley Ethel Lynn Walter Macarthur Ida Finney Mackrille Lillian Jane Martin Martha Nelson McCan John Knox McLean Emma Sutro Merritt Miriam Michelson Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills Ethel Moore Helen Moore May Treat Morrison Charles Murdock Rabbi Jacob Nieto Frances Nacke Noel. Gwendolen Overton (1874/76-1958) - favored woman suffrage; wrote magazine and newspaper articles on the topic Sarah Massey Overton (1850–1914) – women's rights activist and black rights activist. George Pardee Alice Park Maud Wood Park Martha Pearce. Francesca Pierce. Laura Bride Powers. Louise Merrill Pratt. Agnes Ray. Edwin Alsworth Ross. Anna Elizabeth Rude. Helen P. Sanborn Ellen Clark Sargent Clara W. Schlingheyde Caroline Severance Minnie Sharkey Charles M. Shortridge Myra Virginia Simmons Selina Solomons Anna Kalfus Spero Mary Simpson Sperry Emelie Tracy Swett Mary Wood Swift Lucretia Watson Taylor Beatrice Sumner Thompson (California). Hettie Blonde Tilghman Frances Watson Toll Florence True Marion Foster Washburne (1863-1944) - lectured in California and Illinois. Elizabeth Lowe Watson (1842–1927) – president, California Equal Suffrage Association. Charlotte L. Willis Jackson Stitt Wilson Annie Wood Maud Younger

Suffragists who campaigned in California Lucy Anthony Susan B. Anthony Carrie Chapman Catt Abigail Scott Duniway Lucretia Del Valle Grady Helen Hoy Greeley. Julia Ward Howe Florence Kelley Anne Henrietta Martin Anna Howard Shaw Sylvia Pankhurst Helen Todd Elizabeth Margaret Vater Longley

See also

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

References

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