List of Virginia suffragists explained

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.^[1]
• Equal Suffrage League of Fredericksburg.^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• Men's Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, formed in 1912.
• Newport News Equal Suffrage League.
• Virginia Beach National Woman's Party.^[4]
• Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, created in 1907.^[5]
• Virginia Suffrage Association (formerly Virginia Suffrage Society) formed in 1893.
• Virginia Branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage formed in 1915.^[6]

Suffragists

• Pauline Adams (Norfolk).
• Lillie Barbour.^[7]
• Janie Porter Barrett (Hampton).
• Kate Waller Barrett (Alexandria).^[8]
• 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.^[9]
• Anne Atkinson Burmeister Chamberlayne^[10]
• Adèle Clark (Richmond).
• Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke^[11]
• Elizabeth Cooke (Norfolk).
• Edith Clark Cowles (Richmond).
• Anne Clay Crenshaw (Richmond).
• Blanche Culpeper^[12]
• 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).^[13]
• Mary Johnston (Richmond).
• Emma Lee Kelley
• Fannie Bayly King.
• Orra Gray Langhorne (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 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.^[14]
• 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^[15]

Places

• Occoquan Workhouse.
• Three Hills.^[16]

Publications

• The Virginia Suffrage News, published monthly starting in 1914.^{[17] [18]} Managed by Alice Overbey Taylor.

Suffragists who campaigned in Virginia

• Susan B. Anthony.
• William Jennings Bryan.
• Carrie Chapman Catt.
• Pauline Wright Davis.
• Margaret Foley.^[19]
• Matilda Joslyn Gage.
• Joy Montgomery Higgins.
• Josephine Miller.
• Mabel Vernon.^[20]
• Emma Howard Wight.^[21]
• Elizabeth Upham Yates.

Anti-suffragists in Virginia

• Maria Blair (Richmond).^[22]
• 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.^[23]

See also

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

References

Sources

• Book: Anthony, Susan B.. The History of Woman Suffrage. The Hollenbeck Press. 1902. Anthony. Susan B.. 4. Indianapolis. Susan B. Anthony. Harper. Ida Husted.
• 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. 4249352. registration. JSTOR.
• Book: Harper, Ida Husted. The History of Woman Suffrage. J.J. Little & Ives Company. 1922. New York. Ida Husted Harper.

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Julienne. Mari. 2020-08-19. "When Victory Really Came" : Virginia Women Who Fought for the Vote. 2020-10-08. The UncommonWealth. en-US.
2. Web site: Julienne. Mari. 2019-08-21. Equal Suffrage League of Virginia Records are coming to Making History: Transcribe. 2020-10-09. The UncommonWealth. en-US.
3. Web site: Women's Suffrage in Virginia. 2020-10-08. Virginia Places.
4. Web site: Suffragists in Virginia. 2020-10-10. Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. en-US.
5. Web site: Coker. Kathy. 2020-04-23. A Glimpse at Virginia's Organized Woman Suffrage Movement: Part II. 2020-10-10. Richmond Public Library. en-US.
6. Web site: Julienne. Mari. 2020. "Freedom, Justice And True Democracy": The Virginia Branch Of The Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage. May 14, 2021. The UncommonWealth: Voices from the Library of Virginia.
7. Web site: Julienne. Mari. 2020-04-15. 'Secure the Suffrage for Women on Equal Terms with Men' : The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. 2020-10-09. The UncommonWealth. en-US.
8. Web site: McDaid. Jennifer Davis. Woman Suffrage in Virginia. 2020-10-09. Encyclopedia Virginia.
9. Web site: Van Zelm. Antoinette G.. 23 September 2013. Butt, Martha Haines (1833–1871). 2021-01-12. Encyclopedia Virginia.
10. Web site: Juliene. Mari. 2021. 'Her Prospects Of Election': Virginia Women Run For Office. 2021-08-10. The UnCommonwealth: Voices from the Library of Virginia.
11. Book: Tarter, Brent, Marianne E. Julienne, and Barbara C. Batson. The Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia. The History Press. 2020. 978-1-4671-4419-3. Charleston, S.C.. 104–105, 165.
12. Web site: Tarter. Brent. 2021. 'Why Should Not Women Vote?' – Virginia Men Who Supported Woman Suffrage. 2021-08-10. The UnCommonwealth: Voices from the Library of Virginia.
13. Book: Willard . Frances Elizabeth . Frances Willard . Livermore . Mary Ashton Rice . Mary Livermore . A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life . 1893 . 423–24 . . JOHNSTON, Mrs. Maria I. .
14. Web site: Tarter. Brent. 2020. "On The List Of Those Who Will Vote For Woman Suffrage": Virginia Women Lobby The General Assembly. 2021-08-10. The UnCommonwealth: Voices from the Library of Virginia.
15. Web site: Tarter. Brent. 2020. 'Virginia Ready For Women To Vote': The General Assembly Authorizes Women To Vote In 1920. 2021-08-10. The UnCommonWealth: Voices from the Library of Virginia.
16. Web site: Virginia and the 19th Amendment. 2020-10-10. U.S. National Park Service. en.
17. Web site: Johnson. Olin. 2017. Virginia Suffrage News. 2021-08-10. The UnCommonwealth: Voices from the Library of Virginia.
18. Web site: Women's Suffrage in Virginia. 2020-10-10. W&M Women's Law Society.
19. Web site: Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968 . 7 August 2024 . Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
20. Web site: Julienne. Mari. 2020-06-10. 'Freedom, justice and true democracy': The Virginia Branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. 2020-10-09. The UncommonWealth. en-US.
21. News: Keelor . Josette . The three women of Fisher's Hill . 2 May 2021 . The Northern Virginia Daily . 11 October 2019 . en.
22. Web site: Deal. John. 2020. 'Woman Suffrage — The Vanguard Of Socialism'. 2021-08-10. The UnCommonwealth: Voices from the Library of Virginia.
23. Web site: Deal. John. 2020-06-17. Woman Suffrage - The Vanguard of Socialism. 2020-10-09. The UncommonWealth. en-US.