List of Connecticut suffragists explained

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

Groups

• Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (Woman's Political union) of Connecticut.^[1]
• Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA), established in 1869.^[2]
• Equal Rights Club of Willimantic, founded in 1894.
• Greenwich Equal Suffrage League.
• Farmington Equal Franchise League.^[3]
• Hartford Equal Franchise League, established first as the Hartford Political Equality League in 1909.
• Hartford Equal Rights League, founded in 1885.^[4]
• Litchfield Equal Franchise League.
• Men's League for Woman Suffrage.
• Meriden Political Equality Club, founded in 1889.^[5]
• National Junior Suffrage Corps.^[6]
• New Haven Equal Franchise League, founded in 1912.
• New Haven Political Equality Club.
• National Woman's Party (NWP).
• Norwich Equal Franchise League.^[7]
• Old Lyme Equal Franchise League.
• South Manchester Equal Franchise League.
• Suffrage Emergency Corps, created in 1920.
• Wallingford Equal Franchise League.
• Waterbury Equal Franchise League.
• Westport Equal Franchise League.^[8]
• Windsor Equal Franchise League.

Suffragists

• Annie Brewer Austin (Middletown).^[9]
• Elizabeth D. Bacon.^[10]
• Catharine Beecher.
• Henry Ward Beecher.^[11]
• Josephine Bennett (Hartford).^{[12] [13]}
• Minnie L. Bradley (New Haven).^[14]
• Rhoda L. Brooks (Hartford).^[15]
• Olympia Brown (Bridgeport).^{[16] [17]}
• Clara Burr (Norwich).
• Frances Ellen Burr (Hartford).
• Nathaniel J. Burton.
• Helen Chisaski (Bridgeport).
• Callie Mathes Coleman (Hartford).
• Emily Parmely Collins (Hartford).
• Sara Crawford (Westport).
• Amelia Shaw MacDonald Cutler (Westport).^[18]
• Daisy Trotter Daniels (Hartford).
• Katherine Beach Day (Hartford).
• Rosa J. Richardson Fisher (Hartford).
• Catherine Flanagan (Hartford).
• Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (New Haven).
• Martha Minerva Franklin (New Haven).
• Laura Gardin Fraser (Westport).
• Minnie L. Glover (Hartford).
• Elizabeth Jeter Greene (Norwich).
• Phoebe Hanaford (New Haven).
• Minnie Hennessy.
• Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (West Hartford).
• George A. Hickox (Litchfield).^[19]
• Clara Hill (Norwalk).^[20]
• Maud W. Hincks (Bridgeport).^[21]
• Isabella Beecher Hooker.
• John Hooker.
• Anna Louise James (Old Saybrook).
• Mary A. Johnson (Hartford).
• Lena E. Knighton (Hartford).
• Ida Napier Lawson (Hartford).
• Katharine Ludington (Old Lyme).
• Martha Rufner Maddox (Hartford).
• Elmer Livingston MacRae (Greenwich).^[22]
• Anna Holden Mazzanovich (Westport).
• Ethel L. Murray (West Hartford).
• Valeria Hopkins Parker (Greenwich).
• Alice Paul (Ridgefield).^[23]
• Rose Payton (Hartford).
• Emily Pierson (Cromwell).
• Annie Porritt (Hartford).
• Anna B. Reese (Hartford).
• Emma Winner Rogers.^[24]
• Mary Jane Rogers (Montville).
• Caroline Ruutz-Rees (Greenwich).
• Linna Saunders (New Haven).
• Beatrice Johnson Saxon (New Haven).
• Alfredo Samuel Guido Taylor (Norfolk).^[25]
• Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson (Greenwich).^[26]
• Mary Townsend Seymour (Hartford).
• Julia Evelina Smith (Glastonbury).^[27]
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (Hartford).
• Rebecca Tanner (Stamford).
• Ida Sully Troy (Hartford).
• Helena Hill Weed (Norwalk).^[28]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Clifford B. Wilson (Bridgeport).^[29]

Suffragists campaigning in Connecticut

Groups

• Suffrage Emergency Corps

People

• Susan B. Anthony.
• Ella Reeve Bloor.
• Carrie Chapman Catt.^[30]
• Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore.^[31]
• William Lloyd Garrison.
• Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale.
• Grace Raymond Hebard.^[32]
• Mary Seymour Howell.
• Mary Livermore.
• Dudley Field Malone.^[33]
• Emmeline Pankhurst.
• Byron Phelps.
• Jeannette Rankin.
• Anna Howard Shaw.^[34]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
• Ruza Wenclawska.

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (CAOWS), formed in 1910.

People

• Grace G. Markham, president of CAOWS.^[35]

References

Sources

• Book: Anthony, Susan B. . The History of Woman Suffrage . The Hollenbeck Press . 1902 . Anthony . Susan B. . 4 . Indianapolis . Harper . Ida Husted.
• Book: Harper, Ida Husted . The History of Woman Suffrage . J.J. Little & Ives Company . 1922 . New York . Ida Husted Harper.
• Jenkins . Jessica D. . September 2011 . Marching Shoulder to Shoulder: New Life in the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Movement . Connecticut History . 50 . 2 . 131-145 . 10.2307/44370361 . EBSCOhost.
• Book: Kroeger, Brooke . The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote . University of New York Press . 2017 . 9781438466293.
• Marino . Kelly . Fall 2013 . Making a Scene for Suffrage in Connecticut: Emily Pierson and Educational Theatrics, 1910-1917 . Connecticut History . 52 . 2 . 226-242 . 10.2307/44370195 . subscription . EBSCOhost.
• Book: Nichols, Carole . Votes and More for Women: Suffrage and After in Connecticut . The Haworth Press, Inc. . 1983 . 0866561927 . New York . Internet Archive.

Notes and References

1. News: 1915-05-27 . Suffrage Speaker in Great Demand . 2 . Asbury Park Press . 2022-12-21 . Newspapers.com.
2. Web site: Connecticut and the 19th Amendment . 2022-10-07 . U.S. National Park Service . en.
3. News: 1915-10-20 . Votes for Women Enthusiasts Here . 16 . Hartford Courant . 2023-01-27 . Newspapers.com.
4. Web site: Frances Ellen Burr . 2022-10-07 . CT Women’s Hall of Fame . en-US.
5. News: 1910-11-12 . The Meriden Political Equality club . 9 . The Journal . 2022-12-22 . Newspapers.com.
6. Web site: Asolando - Caroline Ruutz Rees . 2023-01-07 . Book Lives.
7. Web site: Weiss . Abby . 2023-01-31 . New Research Uncovers Stories of CT Suffragettes of Color . 2023-09-23 . CT Insider . en-US.
8. Web site: Brown . Mary . LibGuides: Suffrage in Westport: Our Neighbors, Our Crusaders . 2023-01-21 . Westport Library . en.
9. Web site: Barco . Siobhan . Diffley . Ernesta . Marino . Kelly . Menard . Micaela . Muskic . Meliha . Jackie . Katelyn . Exner . Georgia . 2020 . CT Suffragists . 2022-12-20 . Connecticut Suffrage Centennial . en-US.
10. News: 1906-11-02 . The New President . 1 . The Journal . 2023-01-19 . Newspapers.com.
11. News: 1869-10-30 . Woman Suffrage . 8 . New York Daily Herald . 2022-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
12. Web site: Suffragists in Connecticut . 2022-11-12 . Turning Point Suffragist Memorial . en-US.
13. Web site: Christine . Gauvreau . 24 September 2015 . When Attitudes toward World War Divided the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Movement . 2022-11-12 . Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project.
14. Web site: 2020-08-28 . What happened in Connecticut with the 19th Amendment Ratification? . 2022-12-20 . League of Women Voters of Connecticut . en.
15. Web site: Women of Color Suffrage . 2022-12-20 . Connecticut Historical Society . en-US.
16. News: 1870-12-21 . The Coming Woman . 5 . New York Daily Herald . 2022-10-07 . Newspapers.com.
17. Web site: Connecticut . 2023-01-25 . Turning Point Suffragist Memorial . en-US.
18. Web site: Guide to the Amelia MacDonald Cutler Papers, 1906-1921 . 2023-01-21 . Archives & Special Collections Library - Vassar College.
19. Web site: Jenkins . Jessica D. . 2016-06-02 . The Long Road to Women's Suffrage in Connecticut . 2022-12-20 . Connecticut Explored . en-US.
20. News: 1913-04-07 . Woman Suffrage Workers on the Way Here . 7 . Norwich Bulletin . 2022-12-19 . Newspapers.com.
21. News: 29 December 1911 . Printing the Briefs: Suffragettes Submit a Proposition to Their Opponents . 16 February 2024 . Hartford Courant . Newspapers.com.
22. Web site: 19th Amendment Centennial Celebration . 2023-01-08 . Connecticut Bar Association . en.
23. Web site: Connecticut Suffragists . https://web.archive.org/web/20200803201651/https://www.torringtonlibrary.org/connecticut-suffragettes.html . 3 August 2020 . Torrington Library.
24. Web site: Votes for Women . 2023-01-18 . Yale University Library Online Exhibitions.
25. Web site: Guarnieri . Catherine . 2016-02-22 . Architect Who Shaped Norfolk had Feminist Leanings . 2023-09-23 . The Register Citizen . en-US.
26. Web site: Suffragists in Greenwich . 2022-12-30 . Greenwich Historical Society . en-US.
27. Web site: The Glastonbury Cows and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage . https://web.archive.org/web/20160827102959/http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/glastonbury-cows-fight-womens-suffrage/ . 27 August 2016 . 25 January 2023 . New England Historical Society.
28. Web site: 2022-08-18 . 19th Amendment: The Fight Over Woman Suffrage in Connecticut . 2022-10-07 . Connecticut History a CTHumanities Project . en.
29. News: 1919-06-01 . The Martial Adventures of the Presidential Suffrage Bill . 7 . The Labor Standard . 2023-07-25 . Newspapers.com.
30. News: 1916-02-21 . Mrs. C. C. Catt to Speak Here Today . 3 . Hartford Courant . 2022-12-03 . Newspapers.com.
31. News: 1917-11-08 . State Suffragists in Convention . 12 . Hartford Courant . 2022-12-23 . Newspapers.com.
32. News: 1920-05-02 . Advance Guard of Suffrage Emergency Corps Arrives . 14 . New-York Tribune . 2023-08-23 . Newspapers.com.
33. News: 1918-01-27 . Dudley Field Malone on Woman Suffrage . 6 . Hartford Courant . 2022-11-12 . Newspapers.com.
34. Web site: Thornton . Steve . 2020-05-27 . Josephine Bennett: Hartford’s City Mother - Connecticut History . 2022-11-12 . CTHumanities Project . en.
35. News: 1917-02-28 . Warm Hearing on Suffrage Bills Before Judiciary . 13 . Hartford Courant . 2022-12-23 . Newspapers.com.