This is a list of Virginia suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Virginia.
Groups
Bedford Equal Suffrage League. Colored Women's Voting Club in Roanoke. Equal Suffrage League of Fredericksburg. Equal Suffrage League of Highland Springs. Equal Suffrage League of Lynchburg. Equal Suffrage League of Norfolk. Equal Suffrage League of Williamsburg. Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, formed in 1909. Men's Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, formed in 1912. Newport News Equal Suffrage League. Virginia Beach National Woman's Party. Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, created in 1907. Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association. Virginia Suffrage Association (formerly Virginia Suffrage Society) formed in 1893. Virginia Branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage formed in 1915.
Suffragists
Pauline Adams (Norfolk). Lillie Barbour. Janie Porter Barrett (Hampton). Kate Waller Barrett (Alexandria). Anna Whitehead Bodeker – co-founder and inaugural president of Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association, the first suffrage association in Virginia. Kate Langley Bosher (Richmond). Rosa Dixon Bowser (Richmond). Martha Haines Butt. Anne Atkinson Burmeister Chamberlayne Adèle Clark (Richmond). Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke Elizabeth Cooke (Norfolk). Edith Clark Cowles (Richmond). Anne Clay Crenshaw (Richmond). Blanche Culpeper Janet Stuart Oldershaw Durham Janetta R. FitzHugh (Fredericksburg). Ellen Glasgow (Richmond). Nora Houston (Richmond). Maude Jamison (Norfolk). Julia S. Jennings Eugenia Jobson. Maria I. Johnston (Fredericksburg). Mary Johnston (Richmond). Emma Lee Kelley Fannie Bayly King. Orra Henderson Moore Gray Langhorn (Lynchburg). Elizabeth Van Lew Elizabeth Langhorne Lewis Mary Morris Hall Lockwood Lucy Randolph Mason (Richmond). Nell Mercer (Norfolk). Sophie G. Meredith (Richmond). Faith W. Morgan. Mary-Cooke Branch Munford (Richmond). Josephine Mathews Norcom Elizabeth Lewis Otey Rosewell Page. Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton (Roanoke). Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon. Mary Bell Perkins Caroline F. Putnam – abolitionist, teacher, and president of the Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association Agnes Dillon Randolph (Richmond). Eudora Ramsay Richardson. Ralza M. Manly Sally Nelson Robins (Richmond). Ellen Robinson. Ora Brown Stokes. Alice Overbey Taylor. Ida Mae Thompson (Richmond). Clayton Torrence. Jessie Fremont Easton Townsend (Norfolk). Lyon G. Tyler (Williamsburg). Lila Meade Valentine (Richmond). Maggie L. Walker (Richmond). Roberta Wellford Annie Barna Whitner Sarah Harvie Wormeley. Eugenie Macon Yancey (Bedford). Louise Collier Willcox (1865–1929) – honorary vice-president of the Virginia Equal Suffrage League.
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
Richard Lewis Brewer, Jr. Charles Carlin (originally opposed) Howard T. Colvin. Howard Cecil Gilmer. Thomas Lomax Hunter. Allan Jones. Wyndham R. Mayo (Norfolk). Hill Montague (Richmond). John Garland Pollard John R. Saunders Elbert Lee Trinkle John C. Underwood Junius E. West Westel Willoughby Emma Howard Wight.
Places
Occoquan Workhouse. Three Hills.
Publications
The Virginia Suffrage News, published monthly starting in 1914. Managed by Alice Overbey Taylor.
Suffragists who campaigned in Virginia
Susan B. Anthony. William Jennings Bryan. Carrie Chapman Catt. Pauline Wright Davis. Margaret Foley. Matilda Joslyn Gage. Joy Montgomery Higgins. Josephine Miller. Mabel Vernon. Emma Howard Wight. Elizabeth Upham Yates.
Anti-suffragists in Virginia
Maria Blair (Richmond). Jane M. Rutherford. Molly Elliot Seawell Catherine Coles Valentine Mary Mason Anderson Williams Margaret Wilmer Politicians
Harry Flood Byrd Robert Franklin Leedy.
Groups
Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (VAOWS), formed in 1912.
See also
Timeline of women's suffrage in Virginia Women's suffrage in Virginia Women's suffrage in the United States
References
Sources
External links Suffragists in Virginia History We Demand: Women's Suffrage in Virginia Virginia Suffrage issues available online via Virginia Chronicle