Martha McTier
1700s and 1800s Irish activist and writer
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Marie Moore
20th century Irish republican activist
Eva Kelly
1800s Irish poet and nationalist
Fanny Parnell
1800s Irish nationalist and poet
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.
May Tarbell Cannon Whitaker
American writer and civic leader
Mercedes R Cotner
Cleveland City Council clerk for more than 25 years, the first woman to fill that position.
Nettie Mackenzie Clapp
The first woman elected to the Ohio house of representatives from Cuyahoga County in 1922, two years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Phyllis Lamphere
Seattleite who was deeply involved in the city’s civic life for more than 50 years.
Lynn Schenk
The daughter of working–class immigrants, Democrat Lynn Schenk won a hotly contested election in a majority Republican district to become the first woman to represent San Diego, California, in the U.S. House of Representatives.