Born: 28 November 1897,
Died: 22 December 1987
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Marguerite Anne Newburgh
This biography is reprinted with permission from the National Women’s History Museum (United States of America). All rights reserved.
Marguerite Ann Newburgh made suffrage and political history. Under the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution (woman suffrage), she was the first woman to vote in the United States after the passage of the 19th Amendment.
“I wasn’t in the suffragette category, and politics never was my cup of tea.”
–Marguerite Ann Newburgh Cole