List of Virginia suffragists
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This is a list of Virginia suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Virginia.
- Bedford Equal Suffrage League.[1]
- Colored Women's Voting Club in Roanoke.[2]
- Equal Suffrage League of Fredericksburg.[3]
- Equal Suffrage League of Highland Springs.[4]
- Equal Suffrage League of Lynchburg.[4]
- Equal Suffrage League of Norfolk.[3]
- Equal Suffrage League of Williamsburg.[4]
- Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, formed in 1909.[5]
- Men's Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, formed in 1912.[6]
- Newport News Equal Suffrage League.[5]
- Virginia Beach National Woman's Party.[7]
- Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, created in 1907.[8]
- Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association.[9][10][11]
- Virginia Suffrage Association (formerly Virginia Suffrage Society) formed in 1893.[5]
- Virginia Branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage formed in 1915.[12]
Suffragists

- Pauline Adams (Norfolk).[1]
- Lillie Barbour.[13]
- Janie Porter Barrett (Hampton).[13]
- Kate Waller Barrett (Alexandria).[14]
- Anna Whitehead Bodeker – co-founder and inaugural president of Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association, the first suffrage association in Virginia.[14]
- Kate Langley Bosher (Richmond).[14]
- Rosa Dixon Bowser (Richmond).[1]
- Martha Haines Butt.[15]
- Anne Atkinson Burmeister Chamberlayne[16]
- Adèle Clark (Richmond).[1]
- Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke[17]
- Elizabeth Cooke (Norfolk).[18]
- Edith Clark Cowles (Richmond).[1]
- Anne Clay Crenshaw (Richmond).[5]
- Blanche Culpeper[19]
- Janet Stuart Oldershaw Durham[16]
- Janetta R. FitzHugh (Fredericksburg).[3]
- Ellen Glasgow (Richmond).[14]
- Nora Houston (Richmond).[1][19]
- Maude Jamison (Norfolk).[1][7]
- Julia S. Jennings[17]
- Eugenia Jobson.[13]
- Maria I. Johnston (Fredericksburg).[20]
- Mary Johnston (Richmond).[18]
- Emma Lee Kelley[17]
- Fannie Bayly King.[13][19]
- Orra Henderson Moore Gray Langhorn (Lynchburg).[5]
- Elizabeth Van Lew
- Elizabeth Langhorne Lewis[17]
- Mary Morris Hall Lockwood[17][16]
- Lucy Randolph Mason (Richmond).[1][18]
- Nell Mercer (Norfolk).[7]
- Sophie G. Meredith (Richmond).[7]
- Faith W. Morgan.[21]
- Mary-Cooke Branch Munford (Richmond).[14]
- Josephine Mathews Norcom[17]
- Elizabeth Lewis Otey[17][16]
- Rosewell Page.[22]
- Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton (Roanoke).[23][2]
- Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon.[1]
- Mary Bell Perkins[16]
- Caroline F. Putnam – abolitionist, teacher, and president of the Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association
- Agnes Dillon Randolph (Richmond).[1][16]
- Eudora Ramsay Richardson.[1]
- Ralza M. Manly
- Sally Nelson Robins (Richmond).[18]
- Ellen Robinson.[21]
- Ora Brown Stokes.[1]
- Alice Overbey Taylor.[4]
- Ida Mae Thompson (Richmond).[1]
- Clayton Torrence.[24]
- Jessie Fremont Easton Townsend (Norfolk).[3]
- Lyon G. Tyler (Williamsburg).[13]
- Lila Meade Valentine (Richmond).[14]
- Maggie L. Walker (Richmond).[1][16]
- Roberta Wellford[17]
- Annie Barna Whitner[17]
- Sarah Harvie Wormeley.[13]
- Eugenie Macon Yancey (Bedford).[1][16]
- Louise Collier Willcox (1865–1929) – honorary vice-president of the Virginia Equal Suffrage League.[25]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
- Richard Lewis Brewer, Jr.[19][26]
- Charles Carlin (originally opposed)[19]
- Howard T. Colvin.[24]
- Howard Cecil Gilmer.[22]
- Thomas Lomax Hunter.[22][26]
- Allan Jones.[22]
- Wyndham R. Mayo (Norfolk).[13][19]
- Hill Montague (Richmond).[24]
- John Garland Pollard[19]
- John R. Saunders[19]
- Elbert Lee Trinkle[19]
- John C. Underwood
- Junius E. West[27]
- Westel Willoughby
- Emma Howard Wight.[28]
Places
Publications
- The Virginia Suffrage News, published monthly starting in 1914.[30][6] Managed by Alice Overbey Taylor.[4]
Suffragists who campaigned in Virginia
