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.

Groups

• 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

Emma Nakuina (1910)

• 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

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

Suffragists who campaigned in Hawaii

• Carrie Chapman Catt.[2]
• Almira Hollander Pitman.[15]

Anti-suffragists in Hawaii

Groups

• Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women.[16]

See also

• 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

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. "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. Yasutake 2017, p. 134.
7. Steele, Julia (October 2020). "Daughters of Haumea". Hana Hou! (23.4).
8. "2011 Program". Distinctive Women in Hawaiian History. Retrieved 2020-12-11.
9. 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. "Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, delegate for Hawaii, photograph by Harris & Ewing, 1914". U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
15. Yasutake 2017, p. 128.
16. Yasutake 2017, p. 135.

Sources

• 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

• Wilhelmine Dowsett: Hawai'i Suffrage Pioneer