List of Iowa suffragists

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

Groups

• 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

Annie Nowlin Savery 1831-1891

• 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]

Suffragists campaigning in Iowa

• Jane Addams. ^[51]
• Susan B. Anthony. ^[29]
• Henry Browne Blackwell. ^[5]
• Martha H. Brinkerhoff. ^[52]
• Laura Clay. ^[29]
• Phoebe Couzins. ^[53]
• Hannah Tracy Cutler. ^[54]
• Emma Smith DeVoe. ^[55]
• Anna Dickinson. ^[56]
• Frances Dana Gage. ^[13]
• Helen M. Gougar. ^[5]
• Laura A. Gregg. ^[57]
• Ella Harrison. ^[57]
• Mary Garrett Hay. ^[57]
• Matilda Hindman. ^[5]
• Laura M. Johns. ^[41]
• Addie M. Johnson. ^[57]
• Elizabeth A. Kingsbury. ^[56]
• Catharine Waugh McCulloch. ^[29]
• Henrietta G. Moore. ^[57]
• Anna Howard Shaw. ^[2]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton. ^[58]
• Sarah Burger Stearns. ^[29]
• Lucy Stone. ^[5]
• Harriet Taylor Upton. ^[51]
• Frances Woods. ^[57]

See also

• Women's suffrage in Iowa
• Timeline of women's suffrage in Iowa
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

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