List of Kentucky suffragists

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

Groups

• Anderson County Woman's Suffrage League, created in 1913. ^[1]
• Columbus Equal Rights Association, founded in 1897. ^[2]
• Fayette County Equal Rights Association, created in January 1888. ^[3]
• Kentucky Equal Rights Association, formed on November 22, 1888. ^[4]
• Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs. ^[5]
• Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association (KWSA). ^[5]
• Louisville Equal Rights Association (LERA), formed in 1889, later changed name to the Woman Suffrage Association of Louisville in 1908. ^[6]
• Madison County Equal Rights Association. ^[7]
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union. ^[8]

Suffragists

• 

  Margaret Weissinger Castleman

  Susan Look Avery (Louisville). ^[9]
• Lizzie Bates (Louisville). ^[10]
• Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860–1923) – Kentucky temperance activist, social reformer, lecturer, suffragist. ^[11]
• Cornelia Beach (Louisville). ^{[5] [9]}
• Sallie Clay Bennett. ^[12]
• 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). ^[9]
• Sophonisba Breckinridge (1866–1948) – activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher education (Lexington). ^[9]
• Mary E. Britton (Lexington). ^[5]
• Nannie Helen Burroughs (Louisville). ^[10]
• Sylvia Butcher (Louisville). ^[10]
• Alice Barbee Castleman (Louisville). ^[13]
• Margaret Weissinger Castleman (Louisville). ^[9]
• Laura Clay (Lexington). ^{[5] [9]}
• Mary Barr Clay (Richmond). ^[5]
• Sarah A. Corrington (Nicholasville). ^[9]
• Alice Crutcher (Louisville). ^[10]
• Cora De Sha Barnett (Louisville). ^[10]
• Ellen Battelle Dietrick. ^[14]
• Emma Dolfinger (Louisville). ^[9]
• Eugenia B. Farmer (Covington). ^[9]
• John G. Fee. ^[8]
• Mary Elliott Flanery. ^[15]
• Lucy Flint (Louisville). ^[10]
• Jessica Firth (Covington). ^[9]
• Bettiola Heloise Fortson (Hopkinsville). ^[9]
• Lucretia Gibson (Louisville). ^[10]
• Fannie Givens (Louisville). ^[10]
• Eliza Calvert Hall (pen name of Eliza Caroline "Lida" Calvert Obenchain) (1856–1935) – author, women's rights advocate. ^[16]
• Hattie Harris (Louisville). ^[10]
• Rachel Davis Harris (Louisville). ^[10]
• Ida Withers Harrison (Lexington). ^[9]
• Josephine Henry (Versailles). ^[9]
• Sarah Gibson Humphreys (1830–1907) – author, suffragist. ^[17]
• Jessie Leigh Hutchinson (Lexington). ^[9]
• Rebecca Rosenthal Judah (Louisville). ^[9]
• Eliza Kellar (Louisville). ^[10]
• Dorothy Koger (Paducah). ^[9]
• Katherine G. Langley (Pikeville). ^[9]
• Mary Lafon (Louisville). ^[18]
• Maudellen Lanier (Louisville). ^[10]
• Caroline Leech (Louisville). ^[9]
• Eleanor Tarrant Little (Louisville). ^[18]
• Essie Mack (Louisville). ^[10]
• Patsie Sloan Martin (Louisville). ^[10]
• Angell Mengel (Louisville). ^[9]
• Georgia Moore (Louisville). ^[10]
• Georgia Nugent (Louisville). ^[9]
• Eliza Calvert Obenchain (Bowling Green). ^[9]
• Mary Virginia Cook Parrish (Louisville). ^[10]
• Virginia Penny (Louisville). ^[5]
• Josephine Fowler Post (Paducah). ^[9]
• Mary Creegan Roark (Lexington). ^[9]
• Ella Robinson (Louisville). ^[10]
• Sarah Hardin Sawyer. ^[8]
• Patty Blackburn Semple (Louisville). ^[9]
• Lucy Wilmot Smith (Louisville). ^[19]
• Isabella H. Shepard (Frankfort). ^[9]
• Lavinia B. Sneed (Louisville). ^[10]
• Louise Southgate (Covington). ^[9]
• Ida Stanley (Arlington). ^[9]
• Mamie Steward (Louisville). ^[10]
• Ellen Taylor (Louisville). ^[10]
• Mary Florence Taney (Newport). ^[9]
• Carolyn Verhoeff (Louisville). ^[9]
• Mary Verhoeff (Louisville). ^[9]
• John H. Ward (Louisville). ^[20]
• Mary Fitzbutler Waring (Louisville). ^[10]
• Martha Webster (Louisville). ^[10]
• Bertha Whedbee (Louisville). ^[10]
• Alice D. White (Louisville). ^[6]
• Artishia Gilbert-Wilkerson (Louisville). ^[10]
• Emma Woerner. ^[21]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• William Lindsay. ^[14]
• Edwin P. Morrow. ^[22]

Suffragists campaigning in Kentucky

• Jane Addams. ^[23]
• Susan B. Anthony. ^[24]
• Carrie Chapman Catt. ^[25]
• Emma Smith DeVoe. ^[25]
• Max Eastman. ^[26]
• Margaret Foley. ^[27]
• Mary Garrett Hay. ^[25]
• Lucretia Mott. ^[28]
• Rosika Schwimmer. ^[26]
• Anna Howard Shaw. ^[8]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton. ^[24]
• Lucy Stone. ^[28]

Anti-suffragists

• Henry Watterson. ^[29]
• Augustus E. Willson. ^[30]
• Clarence Woods. ^[30]

References

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