List of California suffragists
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This is a list of notable California suffragists who were politically active before and during the successful Proposition 4 in 1911 which gave women won the right to vote.
Groups
- California Equal Suffrage Association[1]
- California Political Equality League[2]
- California Woman Suffrage Society
- Congressional Union for Women Suffrage
- Fannie Jackson Coppin Club[3]
- Los Angeles Forum of Colored Women.[4]
- National American Woman Suffrage Association
- National Woman's Party[5]
- Political Equality Club of Alameda[6]
- Votes for Women Club[7]
- Women's Christian Temperance Union[8]
- Woman's Club of Palo Alto[9]
- Young Women's Suffrage Club[6]
Early 19th century suffragists
Suffragists in the 1896 campaign
- Naomi Anderson[14]
- Alida Avery[15]
- Addie Ballou[6]
- James H. Barry[16]
- Nellie Holbrook Blinn[6]
- Ada Chastina Bowles[17]
- Elinor Majors Carlisle[18]
- Jeanne Carr[19]
- Thomas V. Cator[20]
- Ina Donna Coolbrith[21]
- Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper[22]
- Henry Clay Dibble[23]
- Nellie Blessing Eyster[24]
- Clara Shortridge Foltz[6]
- Sarah Dix Hamlin[25]
- Ida Harper[26]
- Harriet Hobe[27]
- Emma Shafter Howard[28]
- Sarah Knox-Goodrich[29]
- Eliza D. Keith[30]
- Sara Lemmon[31]
- Margaret V. Longley[32]
- Agnes M. Manning[33]
- Alice Moore McComas[34]
- Frances W. McLean[6]
- Kate Moody[35]
- Mabel V. Osbourne[36]
- Mary Goldsmith Prag[37]
- Jennie Phelps Purvis[38]
- Anna M. Morrison Reed.[39]
- Ellen Clark Sargent[35][40]
- Rebecca Spring[27]
- Jane Lathrop Stanford[41]
- Anna Strunsky[42]
- Beaumelle Sturtevant-Peet[43]
- Rowena Granice Steele.[44]
- Mary Louise Swett[45]
- Laura Lyon White[46]
- Charlotte Anita Whitney[47]
- Eliza Tucker Wilkes[35]
- Elizabeth Yates[48]
Suffragists in the 1911 campaign
- Minnie Sharkey Abrams
- Charles F. Aked[49]
- Gertrude Atherton[6]
- Mary Austin[6]
- Charlotte Baker[34]
- Bertha Hirsch Baruch – writer, president of the Los Angeles Suffrage Association.[50]
- Helen Valeska Bary (1888–1973) – suffragist, researcher, and social reformer[51][52]
- Bessie Beatty[53]
- Elia Costillo Bennett[54]
- Annie Ellicott Kennedy Bidwell[55]
- Isabella Williams Blaney (1854–1933) – suffragist, politician.[56]
- John Hyde Braly[7]
- Eva Carter Buckner (Los Angeles).[4]
- Mary Ryerson Butin (1857–1944) – physician; California suffragist.[57]
- Lillian Harris Coffin[58]
- Dora K. Crittenden[27]
- Constance Dean[6]
- Mabel Deering[6]
- Maria de Lopez[59]
- Katherine Philips Edson (1870–1933) – social worker and feminist, worked to add women's suffrage to the California State Constitution.[60]
- Mary Fairbrother[54]
- Katherine Felton[6]
- Susan Fenton[61]
- Londa Stebbins Fletcher[62]
- Clara Shortridge Foltz[63]
- Mary Emily Foy[64]
- Rose M. French[6]
- Mary T. Gamage[54]
- Elizabeth Sears Gerberding[65]
- Mary Simpson Gibson[6]
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Thomas Edward Hayden[66]
- Dora Haynes[67]
- John Randolph Haynes[67]
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst[68]
- Willa Henry[69]
- Gail Laughlin[5]
- Mary McHenry Keith[63]
- Elizabeth Kenney[70]
- Elizabeth Thatcher Kent[71]
- Louise La Rue[72]
- Clara Chan Lee (1886–1993) – first Chinese American to register to vote in the US, 8 November 1911[73]
- Austin Lewis[74]
- Jack London[75]
- Mary Theresa Longley[76]
- Ethel Lynn[54]
- Walter Macarthur[77]
- Ida Finney Mackrille[54]
- Lillian Jane Martin[78]
- Martha Nelson McCan[79]
- John Knox McLean[6]
- Emma Sutro Merritt[80]
- Miriam Michelson[81]
- Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills[82]
- Ethel Moore[83]
- Helen Moore[54]
- May Treat Morrison[84]
- Charles Murdock[6]
- Rabbi Jacob Nieto[85]
- Frances Nacke Noel.[86]
- Gwendolen Overton (1874/76-1958) - favored woman suffrage; wrote magazine and newspaper articles on the topic[87]
- Sarah Massey Overton (1850–1914) – women's rights activist and black rights activist.[88]
- George Pardee[89]
- Alice Park[54]
- Maud Wood Park
- Martha Pearce.[54]
- Francesca Pierce.[90]
- Laura Bride Powers.[91]
- Louise Merrill Pratt.[27]
- Agnes Ray.[92]
- Edwin Alsworth Ross.[93]
- Anna Elizabeth Rude.[94]
- Helen P. Sanborn[95]
- Ellen Clark Sargent[96]
- Clara W. Schlingheyde[97]
- Caroline Severance[98]
- Minnie Sharkey[99]
- Charles M. Shortridge[100]
- Myra Virginia Simmons[101]
- Selina Solomons[102][40][54]
- Anna Kalfus Spero[103]
- Mary Simpson Sperry[104][40]
- Emelie Tracy Swett[105]
- Mary Wood Swift[6]
- Lucretia Watson Taylor[106]
- Beatrice Sumner Thompson (California).[107]
- Hettie Blonde Tilghman[108]
- Frances Watson Toll[34]
- Florence True[54]
- Elizabeth Lowe Watson (1842–1927) – president, California Equal Suffrage Association.[109]
- Charlotte L. Willis[27]
- Jackson Stitt Wilson
- Annie Wood[110]
- Maud Younger[34]
Suffragists who campaigned in California
- Lucy Anthony[40]
- Susan B. Anthony[111]
- Carrie Chapman Catt[6][40]
- Abigail Scott Duniway[112]
- Lucretia Del Valle Grady
- Helen Hoy Greeley.[113][114]
- Julia Ward Howe[6]
- Florence Kelley[115]
- Anne Henrietta Martin[116]
- Anna Howard Shaw[6][40]
- Sylvia Pankhurst[6]
- Helen Todd[117]
- Elizabeth Margaret Vater Longley[118]
