List of California suffragists

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[1]
• California Political Equality League.[2]
• California Woman Suffrage Society
• Congressional Union for Women Suffrage
• Fannie Jackson Coppin Club[3]
• National American Woman Suffrage Association
• National Woman's Party[4]
• Political Equality Club of Alameda[5]
• Votes for Women Club[6]
• Women's Christian Temperance Union[7]
• Woman's Club of Palo Alto[8]
• Young Women's Suffrage Club[5]

Laura de Force Gordon

Early 19th century suffragists

• Anna Dickinson
• Laura de Force Gordon[9]
• Georgiana Bruce Kirby[10]
• Emily Pitts Stevens[11]
• Ellen Clark Sargent[12]
• Elizabeth Lowe Watson[10]

Suffragists in the 1896 campaign

• Naomi Anderson[13]
• Alida Avery[14]
• Addie Ballou[5]
• James H. Barry[15]
• Nellie Holbrook Blinn[5]
• Ada Chastina Bowles[16]
• Elinor Majors Carlisle[17]
• Jeanne Carr[18]
• Thomas V. Cator[19]
• Ina Donna Coolbrith[20]
• Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper[21]
• Henry Clay Dibble[22]
• Nellie Blessing Eyster[23]
• Clara Shortridge Foltz[5]
• Sarah Dix Hamlin[24]
• Ida Harper[25]
• Harriet Hobe[26]
• Emma Shafter Howard[27]
• Sarah Knox-Goodrich[28]
• Sara Lemmon[29]
• Margaret V. Longley[30]
• Agnes M. Manning[31]
• Alice Moore McComas[32]
• Frances W. McLean[5]
• Kate Moody[33]
• Mabel V. Osbourne[34]
• Mary Goldsmith Prag[35]
• Jennie Phelps Purvis[36]
• Ellen Clark Sargent[33][37]
• Rebecca Spring[26]
• Jane Lathrop Stanford[38]
• Anna Strunsky[39]
• Mary Louise Swett[40]
• Laura Lyon White[41]
• Charlotte Anita Whitney[42]
• Eliza Tucker Wilkes[33]
• Elizabeth Yates[43]

Suffragists in the 1911 campaign

Gertrude Atherton

• Charles F. Aked[44]
• Gertrude Atherton[5]
• Mary Austin[5]
• Charlotte Baker[32]
• Bessie Beatty[45]
• Elia Costillo Bennett[46]
• Annie Ellicott Kennedy Bidwell[47]
• John Hyde Braly[6]
• Lillian Harris Coffin[48]
• Dora K. Crittenden[26]
• Constance Dean[5]
• Mabel Deering[5]
• Maria de Lopez[49]
• Katherine Edson[4]
• Mary Fairbrother[46]
• Katherine Felton[5]
• Susan Fenton[50]
• Londa Stebbins Fletcher[51]
• Clara Shortridge Foltz[52]
• Mary Emily Foy[53]
• Rose M. French[5]
• Mary T. Gamage[46]
• Elizabeth Sears Gerberding[54]
• Mary Simpson Gibson[5]
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Thomas Edward Hayden[55]
• Dora Haynes[56]
• John Randolph Haynes[56]
• Phoebe Apperson Hearst[57]
• Willa Henry[58]
• Gail Laughlin[4]
• Mary McHenry Keith[52]
• Elizabeth Kenney[59]
• Elizabeth Thatcher Kent[60]
• Louise La Rue[61]
• Austin Lewis[62]
• Jack London[63]
• Mary Theresa Longley[64]
• Ethel Lynn[46]
• Walter Macarthur[65]
• Ida Finney Mackrille[46]
• Lillian Jane Martin[66]
• Martha Nelson McCan[67]
• John Knox McLean[5]
• Emma Sutro Merritt[68]
• Miriam Michelson[69]
• Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills[70]
• Helen Moore[46]
• May Treat Morrison[71]
• Charles Murdock[5]
• Rabbi Jacob Nieto[72]
• George Pardee[73]
• Alice Park[46]
• Maud Wood Park
• Martha Pearce[46]
• Francesca Pierce[74]
• Laura Bride Powers[75]
• Louise Merrill Pratt[26]
• Agnes Ray[76]
• Edwin Alsworth Ross[77]
• Ellen Clark Sargent[78]
• Clara W. Schlingheyde[79]
• Caroline Severance[80]
• Minnie Sharkey[81]
• Charles M. Shortridge[82]
• Myra Virginia Simmons[83]
• Selina Solomons[84][37][46]
• Anna Kalfus Spero[85]
• Mary Simpson Sperry[86][37]
• Emelie Tracy Swett[87]
• Mary Wood Swift[5]
• Lucretia Watson Taylor[88]
• Hettie Blonde Tilghman[89]
• Frances Watson Toll[32]
• Florence True[46]
• Charlotte L. Willis[26]
• Jackson Stitt Wilson
• Annie Wood[90]
• Maud Younger[32]

How We Won the Vote in California by Selina Solomons

Suffragists who campaigned in California

• Lucy Anthony[37]
• Susan B. Anthony[91]
• Carrie Chapman Catt[5][37]
• Abigail Scott Duniway[92]
• Julia Ward Howe[5]
• Florence Kelley[93]
• Anne Henrietta Martin[94]
• Anna Howard Shaw[5][37]
• Sylvia Pankhurst[5]
• Helen Todd[95]

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

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