Politics Archives - Page 18 of 66

Henrietta de Grey

Countess de Grey , political hostess and philanthropist

Wetxuwiis played a significant diplomatic role that led to the opening of trade with white settlers and provided the Corps of Discovery with critical information to help them reach the Columbia River and the Pacific coast.

Clara Lemlich Shavelson

Clara Lemlich Shavelson is known primarily for her part in the 1909 garment workers strike in New York City, often referred to as the Uprising of 20,000.

Anita Pollitzer

American suffragist

Elizabeth Fisher Read

Scholar and one of Eleanor Roosevelt’s earliest female political and feminist mentors

Frances Perkins

American workers-rights advocate, first women in the US Cabinet, fourth US Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position.

Esther Hobart Morris

Esther Hobart Morris was the first woman to serve as Justice of the Peace in the United States. She was appointed justice of South Pass City, Wyoming after the previous justice resigned in protest after Wyoming Territory passed a woman suffrage amendment in December 1869.