List of Oklahoma suffragists

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

Suffragists

• Kate Himrod Biggers (1849–1935) – president of the Oklahoma Woman's Suffrage Association. ^[1]
• Winnie Branstetter (1879-1960) - socialist suffragette ^[2]
• Elizabeth Fulton Hester (1839-1929) - suffragette in Indian Territory and later Oklahoma ^[3]
• Abbie B. Rich Hillerman (1856-1945) - known as the "Mother of Prohibition" in Oklahoma ^[4]
• Lucia Loomis (1887-1962) - a suffragette journalist who clashed with anti-suffragist journalist Edith Cherry Johnson ^[5]

Suffragists campaigning in Oklahoma

• Frances Woods. ^[6]

Anti-suffragists

• Edith Cherry Johnson (1879-1961) - an anti-suffragist writer for The Daily Oklahoman known as the voice of "traditional domesticity" in Oklahoma ^[7]

See also

• List of American suffragists
• Women's suffrage in the United States

References

1. Fugate, Tally D. "Oklahoma Woman's Suffrage Association". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
2. Schrems, Suzanne H. (October 1998). "Capitalizing on the Woman Question:Organizing Women into the Socialist Party in the Early Twentieth Century". Oklahoma Politics: 25–38. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
3. "Elizabeth Fulton Hester, Class of 1928". oklahomahof.com. Oklahoma Hall of Fame . Retrieved September 25, 2023.
4. Fugate, Tally D. "Hillerman, Abbie B. Rich". okhistory.org. Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture . Retrieved October 1, 2023.
5. Reese, Linda W. "Ferguson, Lucia Loomis (1887–1962)". okhistory.org. Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture . Retrieved November 30, 2023.
6. Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company. pp. 521–522.
7. Reese, Linda W. "Johnson, Edith Cherry (1879–1961)". okhistory.org. Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture . Retrieved November 2, 2023.