List of Missouri suffragists

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

Groups

St. Louis Equal Suffrage League traveling across Missouri in 1916

• Carthage Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1897. ^[1]
• Columbia Equal Suffrage Association. ^[2]
• Equal Suffrage Association of Kansas City, led by Kersey Coates and formed in 1892. ^{[3] [4]}
• Federated Colored Women's Clubs. ^[5]
• Jackson County Suffrage Association, formed in 1918. ^[6]
• Kansas City Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1911. ^[7]
• Kansas City Woman's League, formed in 1914. ^[8]
• Marysville Ladies Marching Band. ^[9]
• Missouri Equal Suffrage Association (MESA) formed in 1895. ^[10]
• Political Equality Club of Warrensburg, formed in 1911. ^[11]
• St. Louis Business Women's Suffrage League, formed in 1912. ^[12]
• St. Louis County Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1870. ^[13]
• St. Louis Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1910. ^[14]
• Wednesday Club, formed in 1890 by Kate Chopin and Charlotte Eliot. ^[15]
• Woman Suffrage Association of Missouri, formed in St. Louis in May 1867. ^[16]

Suffragists

Phoebe W. Couzins

• Penelope Allen (St. Louis). ^[16]
• Libbie C. Anthony (Jefferson City). ^[17]
• Annie White Baxter (Jasper County). ^[18]
• Emily Newell Blair (Jasper County). ^[19]
• Martha H. Brinkerhoff. ^[20]
• Margaret Burke (St. Louis). ^[12]
• Marie Ruoff Byrum (Hannibal). ^[21]
• Julia Shipley Carroll (St. Louis)
• Anna Clapp (St. Louis). ^[2]
• Sarah Chandler Coates (Kansas City). ^[22]
• Myrtle Foster Cook (Kansas City). ^[23]
• Adaline Couzins (St. Louis). ^[24]
• Phoebe Couzins (St. Louis). ^[2]
• Phoebe Jane Ess (Kansas City). ^[2]
• Edna Gellhorn (St. Louis). ^[25]
• Lucretia Hall (St. Louis). ^[16]
• Ella Harrison (Carthage). ^{[26] [27]}
• Rosa Russell Ingels (Columbia). ^[28]
• Victoria Clay Haley (St. Louis). ^[5]
• Rebecca Hazard (St. Louis). ^[16]
• Virginia Hedges (Warrensburg). ^[29]
• Ida Joyce Jackson (Jefferson City). ^[30]
• Frances C. Jenkins (Kansas City) ^[31]
• Addie M. Johnson. ^[32]
• Marguerite Martyn (St. Louis). ^[14]
• Helen Guthrie Miller (Columbia). ^[2]
• Francis Minor (St. Louis). ^[33]
• Virginia Minor (St. Louis). ^[16]
• Jessie Moller (St. Louis). ^[12]
• Ella Moffatt. ^[34]
• Luella Wilcox St. Clair Moss (Columbia). ^[2]
• Alma Nash (Marysville). ^[9]
• Kate Richards O'Hare (St. Louis). ^[35]
• Barbara Blackman O'Neil (St. Louis). ^[2]
• Mary Whitney Phelps. ^[36]
• Florence Wyman Richardson (St. Louis). ^[2]
• Cecilia Razovsky (St. Louis). ^[12]
• Alma Gibson Robb (St. Louis). ^[12]
• Charlotte Rumbold (St. Louis). ^[12]
• Laura Runyon (Warrensburg). ^[37]
• Mary Semple Scott (St. Louis). ^[38]
• Martha Taaffe (Jasper County). ^[26]
• Clara Louise Thompson (St. Louis). ^[39]
• Genevieve Tierney (St. Louis). ^[12]
• Alice Curtice Moyer Wing (St. Louis). ^[40]
• Victoria Conkling Whitney (St. Louis). ^[1]
• Fannie C. Williams (St. Louis). ^[41]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• B. Gratz Brown. ^[42]
• Perl Decker (Joplin). ^[43]

Publications

• The Missouri Woman. ^[44]

Places

• St. Louis Mercantile Library. ^{[45] [46]}

Suffragists who campaigned in Missouri

Marthasville, Missouri suffrage meeting in 1914

• Jane Addams. ^[28]
• Susan B. Anthony. ^[47]
• Ethel Arnold. ^[2]
• Florence Balgarnie. ^[22]
• Henry Blackwell. ^[32]
• Mary C. C. Bradford. ^[32]
• Madeline McDowell Breckenridge. ^[28]
• Mary Waldo Calkins. ^[34]
• Carrie Chapman Catt. ^[2]
• Marion Cole. ^[48]
• Hannah Cutler. ^[49]
• Dorothy Dix. ^[28]
• Margaret Foley. ^[50]
• Clara C. Hoffman. ^[22]
• Julia Ward Howe. ^[47]
• Mary Seymour Howell. ^[22]
• Laura M. Johns. ^[51]
• Mary Livermore. ^[52]
• Anne Henrietta Martin. ^[28]
• Lucia Ames Mead. ^[53]
• Lena Morrow. ^[34]
• Emmeline Pankhurst, invited. ^{[2] [53]}
• Sylvia Pankhurst. ^[37]
• Frances Squire Potter. ^[53]
• Anna Howard Shaw. ^[2]
• Anna R. Simmons. ^[32]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton. ^[2]
• Lucy Stone. ^[54]
• Charles Burlingame Waite. ^[48]

See also

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

References

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7. McBride 1920, p. 321.
8. McBride 1920, p. 322.
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