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Judith Ellen Foster

Suffragist, temperance activist and lawyer who founded the Woman’s National Republican Association in 1888, declaring that “woman is politics.”

Emily Newell Blair

American suffragist and co-founder of the League of Women Voters.

Sonia Johnson was a fifth-generation Mormon who became active in the campaign to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1977, Johnson co-founded Mormons for ERA. Her activism led to her excommunication from the LDS Church and influenced her decision to run for President.

Xochitl Torres Small

U.S. Representative from New Mexico

Catherine Marie Cortez Masto

U.S. Senator from Nevada

Margaret Pender

Irish poet, novelist and political activist

Margaret Moore

1700s and 1800s Countess Mount Cashell and writer

Margaret Collins-O’Driscoll

Irish teacher and politician

Gwendolyn Mink

Gwendolyn Mink is an historical political scientist who has written about racism & nativism in US labor’s political formations at the turn of the 20th century; women & gender in 20th century US social policy history; and gender, race, and low income motherhood in the contemporary politics of poverty policy.

Lenora Fulani

In 1988 Fulani became the first woman and first African American to appear on the ballot in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. She won 225,000 votes, or 0.2% of the November 1988 total.