• Source: List of Virginia suffragists

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




Groups


Bedford Equal Suffrage League.
Colored Women's Voting Club in Roanoke.
Equal Suffrage League of Fredericksburg.
Equal Suffrage League of Highland Springs.
Equal Suffrage League of Lynchburg.
Equal Suffrage League of Norfolk.
Equal Suffrage League of Williamsburg.
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, formed in 1909.
Men's Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, formed in 1912.
Newport News Equal Suffrage League.
Virginia Beach National Woman's Party.
Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, created in 1907.
Virginia Suffrage Association (formerly Virginia Suffrage Society) formed in 1893.
Virginia Branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage formed in 1915.




Suffragists



Pauline Adams (Norfolk).
Lillie Barbour.
Janie Porter Barrett (Hampton).
Kate Waller Barrett (Alexandria).
Anna Whitehead Bodeker (1826–1904) – leader of the earliest attempts to organize for suffrage in Virginia; co-founder and inaugural president of Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association, the first suffrage association in Virginia.
Kate Langley Bosher (Richmond).
Rosa Dixon Bowser (Richmond).
Martha Haines Butt.
Anne Atkinson Burmeister Chamberlayne
Adèle Clark (Richmond).
Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke
Elizabeth Cooke (Norfolk).
Edith Clark Cowles (Richmond).
Anne Clay Crenshaw (Richmond).
Blanche Culpeper
Janet Stuart Oldershaw Durham
Janetta R. FitzHugh (Fredericksburg).
Ellen Glasgow (Richmond).
Nora Houston (Richmond).
Maude Jamison (Norfolk).
Julia S. Jennings
Eugenia Jobson.
Maria I. Johnston (Fredericksburg).
Mary Johnston (Richmond).
Emma Lee Kelley
Fannie Bayly King.
Orra Henderson Moore Gray Langhorn (Lynchburg).
Elizabeth Langhorne Lewis
Mary Morris Hall Lockwood
Lucy Randolph Mason (Richmond).
Nell Mercer (Norfolk).
Sophie G. Meredith (Richmond).
Faith W. Morgan.
Mary-Cooke Branch Munford (Richmond).
Josephine Mathews Norcom
Elizabeth Lewis Otey
Rosewell Page.
Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton (Roanoke).
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon.
Mary Bell Perkins
Agnes Dillon Randolph (Richmond).
Eudora Ramsay Richardson.
Sally Nelson Robins (Richmond).
Ellen Robinson.
Ora Brown Stokes.
Alice Overbey Taylor.
Ida Mae Thompson (Richmond).
Clayton Torrence.
Jessie Fremont Easton Townsend (Norfolk).
Lyon G. Tyler (Williamsburg).
Lila Meade Valentine (Richmond).
Maggie L. Walker (Richmond).
Roberta Wellford
Annie Barna Whitner
Sarah Harvie Wormeley.
Eugenie Macon Yancey (Bedford).




= Politicians supporting women's suffrage

=
Richard Lewis Brewer, Jr.
Charles Carlin (originally opposed)
Howard T. Colvin.
Howard Cecil Gilmer.
Thomas Lomax Hunter.
Allan Jones.
Wyndham R. Mayo (Norfolk).
Hill Montague (Richmond).
John Garland Pollard
John R. Saunders
Elbert Lee Trinkle
Junius E. West




Places


Occoquan Workhouse.
Three Hills.




Publications


The Virginia Suffrage News, published monthly starting in 1914. Managed by Alice Overbey Taylor.




Suffragists who campaigned in Virginia



Susan B. Anthony.
William Jennings Bryan.
Carrie Chapman Catt.
Pauline Wright Davis.
Margaret Foley.
Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Joy Montgomery Higgins.
Josephine Miller.
Mabel Vernon.
Emma Howard Wight.
Elizabeth Upham Yates.




Anti-suffragists in Virginia


Maria Blair (Richmond).
Jane M. Rutherford.
Molly Elliot Seawell
Catherine Coles Valentine
Mary Mason Anderson Williams
Margaret Wilmer
Politicians

Harry Flood Byrd
Robert Franklin Leedy.
Groups

Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (VAOWS), formed in 1912.




See also


Timeline of women's suffrage in Virginia
Women's suffrage in Virginia
Women's suffrage in the United States




References






= Sources

=
Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
Graham, Sara Hunter (April 1993). "Woman Suffrage in Virginia: The Equal Suffrage League and Pressure-Group Politics, 1909-1920". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 101 (2): 227–250. JSTOR 4249352 – via JSTOR.
Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.




External links


Suffragists in Virginia History
We Demand: Women's Suffrage in Virginia
Virginia Suffrage issues available online via Virginia Chronicle

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