List of Minnesota suffragists

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

Groups

• Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• National Woman's Party. ^[2]

Suffragists

• Sarah Tarleton Colvin (1865–1949) – chairman of the Minnesota chapter of the National Woman's Party, arrested during the "Watchfire for Freedom" demonstrations. ^[2]
• Nellie Griswold Francis (1874–1969) – founded and led the Everywoman Suffrage Club, an African-American suffragist group in Minnesota, civil rights and anti-lynching activist. ^[3]
• Ella M. S. Marble (1850–1929) – physician; president of several state associations. ^[4]
• Ima Winchell Stacy (1867-1923) - served on the local committee when the National American Woman Suffrage Association held its annual meeting in Minneapolis in 1901.
• Sarah Burger Stearns (1836–1904) – first president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Alice Ames Winter (1865–1944) – litterateur, author, clubwoman, suffragist. ^[5]

Suffragists campaigning in Minnesota

• Margaret Foley. ^[6]
• Nancy Schoonmaker. ^[7]

References

1. Stuhler, Barbara (1995). "Organizing for the vote. Leaders of Minnesota's Woman Suffrage Movement" (PDF). collections.MNhs.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 14, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
2. "Sarah Tarleton Colvin - Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
3. "Women's suffrage bill". The Nashville Globe. October 20, 1918. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
4. Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 493.
5. "Trellis in the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial". MNopedia. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
6. "Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968". Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
7. Marino 2017, p. 62.

Sources

• Marino, Kelly (April 1, 2017). "Ballots, Bandages, and Books: Connecticut Suffragists, Citizenship Education, and Women's Activism in the World War I Era" . Connecticut History Review. 56 (1): 40–67. doi:10.5406/connhistrevi.56.1.0040. ISSN   0884-7177.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain :Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p.  492.