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Mary Latimer McLendon

Mary Latimer McLendon, along with her older sister Rebecca Latimer Felton, was a leader in the prohibition and woman suffrage movements in Georgia (US state).

Mildred Chadsey

American social reformer

Hannah Maria Conant Tracy Cutler

President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association and the American Women’s Suffrage Association, as well as an abolitionist and a leader of the temperance movement in Ohio

Marie Remington Wing

American lawyer, feminist, and reformer

A longtime suffragist with strong ties to New York politics and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Caroline O’Day was an unwavering supporter of New Deal legislation and a fervent pacifist during her four terms in the US House of Representatives.

Sarah Cecilia Harrison

Irish painter and social campaigner; in 1912 she became the first woman to be elected to Dublin corporation.

Asenath Nicholson

1800s Irish traveller and social reformer

Jennie C Van Ness

A Republican from Essex County, she was one of the first two women elected to the New Jersey Assembly after women were granted the right to vote in 1920.

Dr Harriot Kezia Hunt

As a physician, she focused on women’s health issues, gaining admiration from her patients. As a women’s rights activist, Hunt challenged the boundaries that restricted women in education and in society.

Addie Dickman Miller

American college professor, a founder of the town of Ruskin in Florida and co-founder and vice-president of Ruskin College