List of Connecticut suffragists

This is a list of Connecticut suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Connecticut.

Groups

• Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (Woman's Political union) of Connecticut. ^[1]
• Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA), established in 1869. ^[2]
• Equal Rights Club of Willimantic, founded in 1894. ^[3]
• Greenwich Equal Suffrage League. ^[4]
• Farmington Equal Franchise League. ^[5]
• Hartford Equal Franchise League, established first as the Hartford Political Equality League in 1909. ^[6]
• Hartford Equal Rights League, founded in 1885. ^[7]
• Litchfield Equal Franchise League. ^[8]
• Men's League for Woman Suffrage. ^[9]
• Meriden Political Equality Club, founded in 1889. ^{[10] [3]}
• National Junior Suffrage Corps. ^[11]
• New Haven Equal Franchise League, founded in 1912. ^[12]
• New Haven Political Equality Club. ^[5]
• National Woman's Party (NWP). ^[13]
• Norwalk Equal Franchise League (NEFL). ^[14]
• Norwich Equal Franchise League. ^[15]
• Old Lyme Equal Franchise League. ^[16]
• South Manchester Equal Franchise League. ^[5]
• Suffrage Emergency Corps, created in 1920. ^[17]
• Wallingford Equal Franchise League. ^[18]
• Waterbury Equal Franchise League. ^[5]
• Westport Equal Franchise League. ^[19]
• Windsor Equal Franchise League. ^[5]

Suffragists

• Annie Brewer Austin (Middletown). ^[20]
• Elizabeth D. Bacon. ^[21]
• Catharine Beecher. ^[22]
• Henry Ward Beecher. ^[23]
• Josephine Bennett (Hartford). ^{[24] [13]}
• Minnie L. Bradley (New Haven). ^[25]
• Rhoda L. Brooks (Hartford). ^[26]
• Olympia Brown (Bridgeport). ^{[27] [28]}
• Clara Burr (Norwich). ^[15]
• Frances Ellen Burr (Hartford). ^{[2] [20]}
• Nathaniel J. Burton. ^[29]
• Helen Chisaski (Bridgeport). ^[24]
• Callie Mathes Coleman (Hartford). ^[26]
• Emily Parmely Collins (Hartford). ^[3]
• Sara Crawford (Westport). ^[19]
• Amelia Shaw MacDonald Cutler (Westport). ^[30]
• Daisy Trotter Daniels (Hartford). ^[26]
• Katherine Beach Day (Hartford). ^[20]
• Rosa J. Richardson Fisher (Hartford). ^[26]
• Catherine Flanagan (Hartford). ^[24]
• Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (New Haven). ^[26]
• Martha Minerva Franklin (New Haven). ^[26]
• Laura Gardin Fraser (Westport). ^[19]
• Minnie L. Glover (Hartford). ^[26]
• Elizabeth Jeter Greene (Norwich). ^[15]
• Alyse Gregory (Norwalk). ^[14]
• Phoebe Hanaford (New Haven). ^[28]
• Minnie Hennessy. ^[2]
• Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (West Hartford). ^{[13] [20]}
• George A. Hickox (Litchfield). ^[31]
• Clara Hill (Norwalk). ^[32]
• Maud W. Hincks (Bridgeport). ^[33]
• Isabella Beecher Hooker. ^[2]
• John Hooker. ^[22]
• Anna Louise James (Old Saybrook). ^[25]
• Mary A. Johnson (Hartford). ^[26]
• Lena E. Knighton (Hartford). ^[26]
• Ida Napier Lawson (Hartford). ^[26]
• Katharine Ludington (Old Lyme). ^[20]
• Martha Rufner Maddox (Hartford). ^[26]
• Elmer Livingston MacRae (Greenwich). ^[4]
• Anna Holden Mazzanovich (Westport). ^[19]
• Ethel L. Murray (West Hartford). ^[34]
• Valeria Hopkins Parker (Greenwich). ^[31]
• Alice Paul (Ridgefield). ^[35]
• Rose Payton (Hartford). ^[26]
• Emily Pierson (Cromwell). ^{[32] [20]}
• Annie Porritt (Hartford). ^[36]
• Anna B. Reese (Hartford). ^[26]
• Emma Winner Rogers. ^[37]
• Mary Jane Rogers (Montville). ^[20]
• Caroline Ruutz-Rees (Greenwich). ^[31]
• Linna Saunders (New Haven). ^[26]
• Beatrice Johnson Saxon (New Haven). ^[26]
• Alfredo Samuel Guido Taylor (Norfolk). ^{[9] [38]}
• Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson (Greenwich). ^[39]
• Mary Townsend Seymour (Hartford). ^[20]
• Abby Hadassah Smith (Glastonbury). ^{[40] [41]}
• Julia Evelina Smith (Glastonbury). ^[42]
• The Smiths of Glastonbury. ^[43]
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (Hartford). ^[28]
• Rebecca Tanner (Stamford). ^[15]
• Augusta Lewis Troup (New Haven). ^[44]
• Ida Sully Troy (Hartford). ^[26]
• Helena Hill Weed (Norwalk). ^[45]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Clifford B. Wilson (Bridgeport). ^[46]

Suffragists campaigning in Connecticut

Groups

• Suffrage Emergency Corps

People

• Susan B. Anthony. ^[22]
• Ella Reeve Bloor. ^[18]
• Carrie Chapman Catt. ^[47]
• Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore. ^[48]
• William Lloyd Garrison. ^[23]
• Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale. ^[49]
• Grace Raymond Hebard. ^[50]
• Mary Seymour Howell. ^[51]
• Mary Livermore. ^[23]
• Dudley Field Malone. ^[52]
• Emmeline Pankhurst. ^[31]
• Byron Phelps. ^[49]
• Jeannette Rankin. ^[49]
• Anna Howard Shaw. ^[53]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton. ^[22]
• Ruza Wenclawska. ^[49]

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (CAOWS), formed in 1910. ^[31]

People

• Grace G. Markham, president of CAOWS. ^{[54] [31]}

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