Stella Courtright Stimson
Suffragist and clubwoman Stella Courtright Stimson was 50 when she decided to take down the corrupt Terre Haute, Indiana politician Donn Roberts in 1913.
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Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan was an acclaimed mycologist, King’s College graduate, and Head of the Botany Department (as well as first female professor) at Birkbeck College long before she joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War I, and was made chief controller of the women deployed to France.
Mary A Nolan
American suffragist
Dr Mona Chalmers Watson
In July 1917, Mona Chalmers Watson was named the first Chief Controller of Britain’s Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) when it was formed. The thousands of WAACs worked as cooks and waitresses, clerks, communications operators, drivers, and more. She was already noteworthy as a suffragist, physician, and the first woman to receive her MD from the University of Edinburgh.
Emily Newell Blair
American suffragist and co-founder of the League of Women Voters.
Lucretia del Valle Grady
Mexican-American suffragist and actor
Aurora Lucero-White Lea
Latina U.S. suffragist and folklorist
Mary Macnab
Canadian teacher, social activist, and author
Maude Comstock Waitt
The first woman from Cuyahoga County to be elected to the Ohio Senate in 1922, two years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Dr Amelia Yeomans
Canadian physician and social reformer