List of Iowa suffragists
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This is a list of Iowa suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Iowa.
- Afro-American Protective Association.[1]
- Boone Equality Club.[2]
- Chariton Equal Suffrage Society.[3]
- Des Moines League of Colored Women Voters, formed in 1912.[4]
- Iowa Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), formed as the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association (IWSA) in 1870.[5][6]
- Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.[7]
- Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs (IFWC).[2]
- Iowa State Woman Suffrage Society.[8]
- Men's League for Women's Suffrage, organized in 1910.[9]
- Men's League of Perry.[10]
- Northern Iowa Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1869.[2]
- Political Equality Club of Sioux City, formed in 1889.[11]
- Polk County Suffrage Association.[7]
- Waterloo Suffragette Council.[12]
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[2]
Suffragists
- Mary Newbury Adams.[13]
- Teresa Adams (Davenport).[2]
- Adelaide Ballard.[14]
- Mary A. Beavers (Mount Pleasant).[15]
- Evelyn H. Belden.[16]
- Narcissa T. Bemis.[5]
- Amelia Bloomer (Council Bluffs).[9]
- Sue M. Wilson Brown (Des Moines).[7][2]
- Martha C. Callanan.[17]
- Margaret W. Campbell.[5]
- Carrie Chapman Catt (Charles City).[9]
- Nettie Sanford Chapin (Marshalltown).[15]
- Mary Jane Coggeshall.[13]
- Fannie Wilson Cooper (Des Moines).[18]
- Mary Darwin (Burlington).[19]
- Keziah Anderson Dorrance (Taylor County).[20]
- Helen Downey.[7]
- Joseph Dugdale (Mount Pleasant).[21][22]
- Marion Howard Dunham (Burlington).[23]
- Flora Dunlap (Des Moines).[24]
- Susan Frances Nelson Ferree (1844–1919).[25]
- Susan Fessenden (1840–1932) (Sioux City).[26]
- Matilda Fletcher (Council Bluffs).[27]
- Mariana Thompson Folsom.[5]
- Alvah and Martha Frisbie
- Eleanor Gordon (Boone).[28][2]
- Eliza H. Hunter.[29]
- Caroline Ingham (Kossuth County).[30]
- Harvey Ingham (Kossuth County).[30]
- Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1952) – Universalist minister and suffragist.[31]
- Grace Morris Allen Jones (Burlington).[32]
- Jennie A. Kilburne (Adair County).[33]
- Anna B. Lawther (Dubuque).[34]
- James Rush Lincoln.[35]
- Mabel Lodge (Cedar Falls).[36]
- Arabella Mansfield.[13]
- Jennie McCowen (1845–1924) – physician, writer, lecturer, medical journal editor, suffragist.[37]
- Jane Amy McKinney.[5]
- Hattie Moore (Mrs. James F.) Mitchell (1866-1943) - professor of methodology at Drake University,[38] popular speaker at teacher institutes and Chautauquas[39]
- Carrie Dean Pruyn.[40]
- Lizzie Bunnell Read (Algona).[30]
- Gertrude Rush.[7]
- Mary Safford.[28]
- Anna H. Satterly.[41]
- Annie Nowlin Savery (Des Moines).[42]
- Vivian Smith[7]
- Rowena Edson Stevenson (Boone).[2]
- Adeline Morrison Swain.[13]
- Mary Beaumont Welch (Ames).[43]
- Alda Heaton Wilson.[44]
- Henrietta Wilson (Dubuque).[45]
- Mattie Woods.[7]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
- Cyrus C. Carpenter.[46]
- William L. Harding.[47]
- William Larrabee.[48]
- Benjamin F. Murray (Winterset).[49]
- Henry O'Connor.[21]
- William G. Wilson (Davis County).[50]
Publications
- Woman's Standard, created in 1886.[35]
