List of New Jersey suffragists

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

Groups

• 

  Suffragists leaving for the White House in 1913

  New Jersey chapter of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage is formed in 1915. ^[1]
• Equal Franchise Society of New Jersey, organized in 1910. ^[2]
• Equal Justice League, formed in Bayonne in 1911. ^[3]
• Equal Suffrage League of the Amboys. ^[4]
• Essex County Suffrage Society. ^[5]
• Hudson County Woman Suffrage Party. ^[6]
• Montclair Equal Suffrage League. ^[7]
• National Woman's Party (NWP) of New Jersey. ^[8]
• New Brunswick Equal Suffrage League. ^[4]
• New Jersey Men's League for Equal Suffrage, formed in 1910. ^[2]
• New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (NJSFCWC). ^[9]
• New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA), formed in 1867. ^[10]
• Orange Political Study Club (OPSC), created in 1898. ^[11]
• Progressive Woman Suffrage Society. ^[8]
• Rutherford Equal Suffrage League. ^[12]
• Sewaren Equal Suffrage League. ^[13]
• Vineland Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1866. ^[14]
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union. ^[12]
• Woman's Political Union of New Jersey. ^[5]

Suffragists

Mina Van Winkle and the Suffrage Torch

• Minnie Abbott (Atlantic City). ^[8]
• Minnie Adams (Sewaren). ^[13]
• Caroline B. Alexander (Hoboken). ^[15]
• Antoinette Brown Blackwell (Elizabeth). ^[10]
• Emma L. Blackwell. ^[16]
• Henry Browne Blackwell (Orange). ^[17]
• Cornelia Foster Bradford. ^[12]
• Augusta Cooper Bristol (Vineland). ^[18]
• Charlotte Emerson Brown. ^[19]
• Ida E. Duckett Brown. ^[9]
• Katharine H. Browning (West Orange). ^[20]
• Mary E. Cary Burrell (Essex County). ^[21]
• Harriet Frances Carpenter (Newark). ^{[22] [23]}
• Flora Gapen Charters. ^[24]
• Edith H. Colby (West Orange). ^[25]
• Mary Kendall Loring Colvin (East Orange). ^[26]
• Henrietta Green Crawford (Vineland). ^[27]
• Agnes M. Cromwell (Mendham). ^[28]
• Seymour L. Cromwell. ^[29]
• May Chase Cummings (Middlesex County). ^[30]
• Fanny B. Downs (Orange). ^[31]
• Sarah Corson Downs. ^[32]
• Mary Dubrow (Passaic). ^[8]
• Thomas Edison (West Orange). ^[33]
• Charlotte N. Enslin (Orange). ^[34]
• Bertha L. Fearey (East Orange). ^[31]
• Lillian Feickert. ^[35]
• Florence F. Foster. ^[2]
• Susan Pecker Fowler (Vineland). ^[36]
• Cecilia Gaines (Jersey City). ^[37]
• Emma O. Gantz (East Orange). ^[15]
• Angelina Grimké. ^[38]
• Sarah Moore Grimké. ^[38]
• Florence Howe Hall. ^[31]
• Phebe Hanaford (Jersey City). ^{[39] [40]}
• Alma Arabella Parker Harvey (Deal). ^[41]
• Carrie H. Henry (Jersey City). ^[25]
• Alison Turnbull Hopkins (Morristown). ^[8]
• Julia Hurlbut (Morristown). ^[8]
• Cornelia C. Hussey (East Orange). ^[20]
• Mary D. Hussey (East Orange). ^[31]
• Anna B. Jeffery. ^[42]
• Elizabeth A. Kingsbury (Vineland). ^[43]
• Beatrice Kinkead (Montclair). ^[44]
• Martha Klatscken (East Orange). ^[8]
• Clara Schlee Laddey. ^[45]
• Harriet Lafetra (Monmouth). ^[17]
• Alice Lakey (Cranford). ^[25]
• Amelia Berndt Moorfield (Newark). ^[46]
• Mary Pattison (Colonia). ^[1]
• Alice Paul (Mt. Laurel). ^[8]
• Mary Philbrook (Newark). ^[37]
• Aaron Macy Powell. ^[47]
• Anita Stillman Quarles (Hoboken). ^[48]
• Florence Spearing Randolph. ^[49]
• Ella M. Rice (Middlesex County). ^[49]
• Belle de Rivera (Mountain Lakes). ^[50]
• Linton Satterthwaite (Trenton). ^[51]
• Melinda Scott (Newark). ^[52]
• Phoebe Scott (Morristown). ^[8]
• Agnes Anne Schermerhorn (East Orange). ^[53]
• Therese Walling Seabrook (Keyport). ^[54]
• Sarah E. Selover (South River). ^[55]
• Minola Graham Sexton (Orange). ^[11]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Tenafly). ^{[56] [14]}
• Lucy Stone (Orange). ^{[10] [17]}
• Rhea Vickers. ^[57]
• Mina Van Winkle. ^[51]

  

  New Jersey suffragists, c. 1919 or 1920

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• William Miller Baird. ^[58]
• Robert Carey (Jersey City). ^[29]
• Thomas Chattle. ^[59]
• Mabel H. Churchill. ^[60]
• Everett Colby. ^[29]
• Walter Evans Edge. ^[44]
• Charles M. Egan (Jersey City). ^[61]
• John Franklin Fort. ^[62]
• Antoinette Funk. ^[60]
• William C. Gebhardt (Hunterdon County). ^[57]
• Charles O'Connor Hennessy (Bergen County). ^[29]
• Henry Lafetra (Monmouth). ^[17]
• Victor Mavalag (Elizabeth). ^[62]
• Walter I. McCoy. ^[63]
• William Lawrence Saunders (Plainfield). ^[64]
• Judge John Whitehead. ^[19]
• Alexander Wilder (Newark). ^[65]
• Grant Griesman (Bowdoin ‘24)
• Alan Casey (from Madrid)

Suffragists campaigning in New Jersey

• Alice Stone Blackwell. ^[66]
• Lillie Devereux Blake. ^[67]
• Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg. ^[16]
• Harriot Stanton Blatch. ^[16]
• Laura Gregg Cannon. ^[68]
• Carrie Chapman Catt. ^[67]
• Mariana Wright Chapman. ^[20]
• Liska Stillman Churchill. ^[68]
• Annie Le Porte Diggs. ^[67]
• Rheta Childe Dorr. ^[3]
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman. ^[57]
• Kate M. Gordon. ^[20]
• Alyse Gregory. ^[68]
• Mary Garrett Hay. ^[20]
• Clara Cleghorn Hoffman. ^[34]
• Julia Ward Howe. ^[69]
• Fola La Follette. ^[68]
• Mary Livermore. ^[69]
• Sophia Loebinger. ^[45]
• Ellis Meredith. ^[16]
• George Middleton. ^[68]
• Florence Miller. ^[16]
• Emmeline Pankhurst. ^[2]
• Emily Pierson. ^[55]
• Anita Pollitzer. ^[70]
• Minnie Reynolds. ^[51]
• Helen Ring Robinson. ^[71]
• Anna Howard Shaw. ^[20]
• Mary Church Terrell. ^[72]
• Mabel Vernon. ^[73]
• Fanny Garrison Villard. ^[57]
• Elizabeth Upham Yates. ^[67]

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Men's Anti-Suffrage League of New Jersey. ^[74]
• New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NJAOWS) is formed in 1912. ^[51]

People

• Anna Dayton (Trenton). ^[75]
• Georgiana Breese. ^[51]
• Frances Cleveland (Princeton). ^[75]
• Harriet Clark Fisher (Trenton). ^[76]
• Mrs. O. D. Oliphant (Trenton). ^[77]
• John A. Matthews (Newark). ^[77]
• William Francis Magie (Princeton). ^[74]
• Blanche O. Roebling (Trenton). ^[78]

Anti-suffragists campaigning in New Jersey

• Minnie Bronson. ^[51]
• Josephine Jewell Dodge. ^[79]
• Alice N. George. ^[80]

See also

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

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