List of Kentucky suffragists
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This is a list of Kentucky suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Kentucky.
- Anderson County Woman's Suffrage League, created in 1913.[1]
- Collegiate Equal Suffrage League.[2]
- Columbus Equal Rights Association, founded in 1897.[3]
- Covington Colored Organization, formed in 1895.[4]
- Fayette County Equal Rights Association, created in January 1888.[5]
- Hopkins County Equal Rights Association.[6]
- Kentucky Equal Rights Association, formed on November 22, 1888.[7]
- Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs.[8]
- Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association (KWSA).[8]
- Kenton County Equal Rights Association.[9]
- Laurel County Equal Rights Association.[10]
- Louisville Equal Rights Association (LERA), formed in 1889, later changed name to the Woman Suffrage Association of Louisville in 1908.[11]
- Madison County Equal Rights Association.[12]
- The Men's League.[13]
- National Association of Colored Women's Clubs.[14]
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union.[15]
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- Susan Look Avery (Louisville).[16]
- Lizzie Bates (Louisville).[17]
- Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860–1923) – Kentucky temperance activist, social reformer, lecturer, suffragist.[18]
- Cornelia Beach (Louisville).[8][16]
- Sarah "Sallie" Clay Bennett.[19]
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920) – suffrage leader, one-time vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, one of Kentucky's leading Progressive reformers (Lexington).[16]
- Sophonisba Breckinridge (1866–1948) – activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher education (Lexington).[16]
- Mary E. Britton (Lexington).[8]
- Nannie Helen Burroughs (Louisville).[17]
- Sylvia Butcher (Louisville).[17]
- Alice Barbee Castleman (Louisville).[20]
- Margaret Weissinger Castleman (Louisville).[16]
- Laura Clay (Lexington).[8][16]
- Mary Barr Clay (Richmond).[8]
- Sarah A. Corrington (Nicholasville).[16]
- Alice Crutcher (Louisville).[17]
- Cora De Sha Barnett (Louisville).[17]
- Ellen Battelle Dietrick.[21]
- Emma Dolfinger (Louisville).[16]
- Eugenia B. Farmer (Covington).[16]
- John G. Fee.[15]
- Mary Elliott Flanery.[22]
- Jennie Maas Flexner (Louisville).[23]
- Lucy Flint (Louisville).[17]
- Jessica Firth (Covington).[16]
- Bettiola Heloise Fortson (Hopkinsville).[16]
- Lucretia Gibson (Louisville).[17]
- Fannie Givens (Louisville).[17]
- Eliza Calvert Hall (pen name of Eliza Caroline "Lida" Calvert Obenchain) (1856–1935) – author, women's rights advocate.[24]
- Hattie Harris (Louisville).[17]
- Rachel Davis Harris (Louisville).[17]
- Ida Withers Harrison (Lexington).[16]
- Josephine Henry (Versailles).[16]
- Marian Hord Hubbard.[25]
- Sarah Gibson Humphreys (1830–1907) – author, suffragist.[26]
- Jessie Leigh Hutchinson (Lexington).[16]
- Rebecca Rosenthal Judah (Louisville).[16]
- Eliza Kellar (Louisville).[17]
- Dorothy Koger (Paducah).[16]
- Katherine G. Langley (Pikeville).[16]
- Mary Lafon (Louisville).[27]
- Maudellen Lanier (Louisville).[17]
- Caroline Leech (Louisville).[16]
- Eleanor Tarrant Little (Louisville).[27]
- Essie Mack (Louisville).[17]
- Patsie Sloan Martin (Louisville).[17]
- Angell Mengel (Louisville).[16]
- Georgia Moore (Louisville).[17]
- Georgia Nugent (Louisville).[16]
- Eliza Calvert Obenchain (Bowling Green).[16]
- Mary Virginia Cook Parrish (Louisville).[17]
- Virginia Penny (Louisville).[8]
- Josephine Fowler Post (Paducah).[16]
- Eugenia Dunlap Potts.[28]
- Mary Creegan Roark (Lexington).[16]
- Ella Robinson (Louisville).[17]
- Virginia Pollard Robinson (Louisville).[29]
- Sarah Hardin Sawyer.[15]
- Patty Blackburn Semple (Louisville).[16]
- Isabella H. Shepard (Frankfort).[16]
- Lucy Wilmot Smith (Louisville).[30]
- Lavinia B. Sneed (Louisville).[17]
- Louise Southgate (Covington).[16]
- Ida Stanley (Arlington).[16]
- Mamie Steward (Louisville).[17]
- Christine Bradley South.[31]
- Ellen Taylor (Louisville).[17]
- Mary Florence Taney (Newport).[16]
- Carolyn Verhoeff (Louisville).[16]
- Mary Verhoeff (Louisville).[16]
- John H. Ward (Louisville).[32]
- Mary Fitzbutler Waring (Louisville).[17]
- Martha Webster (Louisville).[17]
- Bertha Whedbee (Louisville).[17]
- Alice D. White (Louisville).[11]
- Harvey W. Wiley.[13]
- Artishia Gilbert-Wilkerson (Louisville).[17]
- Emma Woerner.[33]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
Suffragists campaigning in Kentucky
- Jane Addams.[35]
- Susan B. Anthony.[36]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[37]
- Emma Smith DeVoe.[37]
- Max Eastman.[38]
- William H. Fineshriber.[39]
- Margaret Foley.[40]
- Mary Garrett Hay.[37]
- Lucretia Mott.[41]
- Emmeline Pankhurst.[38]
- Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence.[38]
- Rosika Schwimmer.[38]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[15]
- Ethel Snowden.[42]
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[36]
- Lucy Stone.[41]
- Frances Woods.[43]
