List of Connecticut suffragists
This is a list of Connecticut suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Connecticut.
Groups
Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, Greenwich Equal Franchise League banner - Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA), established in 1869.[2]
- Equal Rights Club of Willimantic, founded in 1894.[3]
- Greenwich Equal Suffrage League.[4]
- Farmington Equal Franchise League.[5]
- Hartford Equal Franchise League, established first as the Hartford Political Equality League in 1909.[6]
- Hartford Equal Rights League, founded in 1885.[7]
- Litchfield Equal Franchise League.[8]
- Men's League for Woman Suffrage.[9]
- Meriden Political Equality Club, founded in 1889.[10][3]
- National Junior Suffrage Corps.[11]
- New Haven Equal Franchise League, founded in 1912.[12]
- New Haven Political Equality Club.[5]
- National Woman's Party (NWP).[13]
- Norwalk Equal Franchise League (NEFL).[14]
- Norwich Equal Franchise League.[15]
- Old Lyme Equal Franchise League.[16]
- South Manchester Equal Franchise League.[5]
- Suffrage Emergency Corps, created in 1920.[17]
- Wallingford Equal Franchise League.[18]
- Waterbury Equal Franchise League.[5]
- Westport Equal Franchise League.[19]
- Windsor Equal Franchise League.[5]
Suffragists
Connecticut Votes for Women, Working women need the vote c 1919 - Annie Brewer Austin (Middletown).[21]
- Elizabeth D. Bacon.[22]
- Dorothy Jones Bartlett.[23]
- Catharine Beecher.[24]
- Henry Ward Beecher.[25]
- Josephine Bennett (Hartford).[26][13]
- Minnie L. Bradley (New Haven).[27]
- Rhoda L. Brooks (Hartford).[28]
- Olympia Brown (Bridgeport).[29][30]
- Clara Burr (Norwich).[15]
- Frances Ellen Burr (Hartford).[2][21]
- Nathaniel J. Burton.[31]
- Helen Chisaski (Bridgeport).[26]
- Callie Mathes Coleman (Hartford).[28]
- Emily Parmely Collins (Hartford).[3]
- Sara Crawford (Westport).[19]
- Amelia Shaw MacDonald Cutler (Westport).[32]
- Daisy Trotter Daniels (Hartford).[28]
- Katherine Beach Day (Hartford).[21]
- Rosa J. Richardson Fisher (Hartford).[28]
- Catherine Flanagan (Hartford).[26]
- Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (New Haven).[28]
- Martha Minerva Franklin (New Haven).[28]
- Laura Gardin Fraser (Westport).[19]
- Minnie L. Glover (Hartford).[28]
- Elizabeth Jeter Greene (New London).[15][33]
- Alyse Gregory (Norwalk).[14]
- Phoebe Hanaford (New Haven).[30]
- Minnie Hennessy.[2]
- Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (West Hartford).[13][21]
- George A. Hickox (Litchfield).[34]
- Clara Hill (Norwalk).[35]
- Elsie Hill.[23]
- Maud W. Hincks (Bridgeport).[36]
- Isabella Beecher Hooker.[2]
- John Hooker.[24]
- Anna Louise James (Old Saybrook).[27]
- Mary A. Johnson (Hartford).[28]
- Ella B. Kendrick.[3]
- Lena E. Knighton (Hartford).[28]
- Ruby E. Koenig.[23]
- Ida Napier Lawson (Hartford).[28]
- Pearl Woods Lee.[37]
- Katharine Ludington (Old Lyme).[21]
- Martha Rufner Maddox (Hartford).[28]
- Elmer Livingston MacRae (Greenwich).[4]
- Anna Holden Mazzanovich (Westport).[19]
- Ethel L. Murray (West Hartford).[38]
- Valeria Hopkins Parker (Greenwich).[34]
- Alice Paul (Ridgefield).[39]
- Rose Payton (Hartford).[28]
- Emily Pierson (Cromwell).[35][21]
- Annie Porritt (Hartford).[40]
- Edna M. Purtell.[23]
- Anna B. Reese (Hartford).[28]
- Emma Winner Rogers.[41]
- Mary Jane Rogers (Montville).[21]
- Caroline Ruutz-Rees (Greenwich).[34]
- Linna Saunders (New Haven).[28]
- Beatrice Johnson Saxon (New Haven).[28]
- Ruth Scott.[23]
- Alfredo Samuel Guido Taylor (Norfolk).[9][42]
- Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson (Greenwich).[43]
- Mary Townsend Seymour (Hartford).[21]
- Abby Hadassah Smith (Glastonbury).[44][45]
- Julia Evelina Smith (Glastonbury).[46]
- The Smiths of Glastonbury.[47]
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (Hartford).[30]
- Rebecca Tanner (Stamford).[15]
- Augusta Lewis Troup (New Haven).[48]
- Ida Sully Troy (Hartford).[28]
- Elsie Ver Vane.[23]
- Helena Hill Weed (Norwalk).[49]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
- John H. Light.[50]
- Clifford B. Wilson (Bridgeport).[51]
Suffragists campaigning in Connecticut
Groups
People
- Jane Addams.[52]
- Susan B. Anthony.[24]
- Ethel Arnold.[52]
- Charles A. Beard.[53]
- Ella Reeve Bloor.[18]
- Margaret Bondfield.[52]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[54]
- Stanton Coit.[52]
- Rheta Childe Dorr.[55]
- Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore.[56]
- Max Eastman.[55]
- William Lloyd Garrison.[25]
- Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale.[57]
- Grace Raymond Hebard.[58]
- Arthur N. Holcombe.[53]
- Mary Seymour Howell.[59]
- Lucy Huffaker.[55]
- Fola La Follette.[60]
- Mary Livermore.[25]
- Owen Lovejoy.[52]
- Dudley Field Malone.[61]
- Emmeline Pankhurst.[34]
- Byron Phelps.[57]
- Jeannette Rankin.[57]
- Nancy Schoonmaker.[62]
- Ernest Thompson Seton.[52]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[63]
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[24]
- Lincoln Steffens.[52]
- Ruza Wenclawska.[57]
- Elizabeth Upham Yates.[3]
- Charles Zueblin.[52]
Anti-suffragists
Groups
- Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (CAOWS), formed in 1910.[34]
People
See also
References
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- 1 2 3 4 "Connecticut and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Anthony 1902, p. 536.
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- 1 2 3 4 5 "Votes for Women Enthusiasts Here". Hartford Courant. October 20, 1915. p. 16. Retrieved January 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Harper 1922, p. 70.
- ↑ "Frances Ellen Burr". CT Women’s Hall of Fame. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- ↑ Jenkins 2011, p. 137.
- 1 2 Kroeger 2017, p. 98.
- ↑ "The Meriden Political Equality club". The Journal. November 12, 1910. p. 9. Retrieved December 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Asolando - Caroline Ruutz Rees". Book Lives. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
- ↑ Harper 1922, p. 71.
- 1 2 3 Christine, Gauvreau (September 24, 2015). "When Attitudes toward World War Divided the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Movement". Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
- 1 2 Bennewitz 2020a, p. 72.
- 1 2 3 4 Weiss, Abby (January 31, 2023). "New Research Uncovers Stories of CT Suffragettes of Color". CT Insider. Retrieved September 23, 2023.
- ↑ Harper 1922, p. 74.
- ↑ Harper 1922, p. 76.
- 1 2 Marino 2013, p. 230.
- 1 2 3 4 Brown, Mary. "LibGuides: Suffrage in Westport: Our Neighbors, Our Crusaders". Westport Library. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
- ↑ Marino 2017, p. 49-50.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Barco, Siobhan; Diffley, Ernesta; Marino, Kelly; Menard, Micaela; Muskic, Meliha; Jackie, Katelyn; Exner, Georgia (2020). "CT Suffragists". Connecticut Suffrage Centennial. Archived from the original on November 6, 2020. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Marino 2017, p. 50.
- 1 2 3 4 Nichols 1983, p. 6.
- 1 2 3 "Woman Suffrage". New York Daily Herald. October 30, 1869. p. 8. Retrieved October 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Women of Color Suffrage". Connecticut Historical Society. Archived from the original on March 24, 2021. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
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- ↑ Anthony 1902, p. 535.
- ↑ "Guide to the Amelia MacDonald Cutler Papers, 1906-1921". Archives & Special Collections Library - Vassar College. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
- ↑ "Elizabeth J. Greene Dies; Civic Leader". Hartford Courant. February 27, 1973. p. 1. Retrieved November 22, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jenkins, Jessica D. (June 2, 2016). "The Long Road to Women's Suffrage in Connecticut". Connecticut Explored. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
- 1 2 "Woman Suffrage Workers on the Way Here". Norwich Bulletin. April 7, 1913. p. 7. Retrieved December 19, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Printing the Briefs: Suffragettes Submit a Proposition to Their Opponents". Hartford Courant. December 29, 1911. Retrieved February 16, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Dunne, Susan (July 10, 2020). "Exploring Lives of Black Suffragists". Hartford Courant. pp. B3. Retrieved November 20, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Jenkins 2011, p. 141.
- ↑ "Connecticut Suffragists". Torrington Library. Archived from the original on August 3, 2020.
- ↑ Nichols 1983, p. 8.
- ↑ "Votes for Women". Yale University Library Online Exhibitions. Retrieved January 18, 2023.
- ↑ Guarnieri, Catherine (February 22, 2016). "Architect Who Shaped Norfolk had Feminist Leanings". The Register Citizen. Retrieved September 23, 2023.
- ↑ "Suffragists in Greenwich". Greenwich Historical Society. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press. 1999. p. 212. ISBN 978-1-57356-131-0.
- ↑ "Abby Hadassah Smith and Julia Evelina Smith". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ↑ "The Glastonbury Cows and the Fight for Women's Suffrage". New England Historical Society. Archived from the original on August 27, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
- ↑ "The Smith Sisters, Their Cows, and Women's Rights in Glastonbury - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project". Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project - Stories about the people, traditions, innovations, and events that make up Connecticut's rich history. March 12, 2021. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
- ↑ "Augusta Lewis Troup". Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on February 6, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
- ↑ "19th Amendment: The Fight Over Woman Suffrage in Connecticut". Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project. August 18, 2022. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- ↑ Bennewitz, Kathleen Motes (June 30, 2021). "Connecticut Attorney General John H. Light and His Fight for Woman's Suffrage -". Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project. Retrieved November 24, 2025.
- ↑ "The Martial Adventures of the Presidential Suffrage Bill". The Labor Standard. June 1, 1919. p. 7. Retrieved July 25, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Bennewitz, Kathleen Motes (July 15, 2020). "Trolley Campaigners Storm Small Towns and Votes for Women is the Battle Cry -". Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project. Retrieved November 30, 2025.
- 1 2 "Will Besiege Litchfield County". Hartford Courant. July 27, 1911. p. 7. Retrieved November 30, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Mrs. C. C. Catt to Speak Here Today". Hartford Courant. February 21, 1916. p. 3. Retrieved December 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 3 Bennewitz 2020a, p. 86.
- ↑ "State Suffragists in Convention". Hartford Courant. November 8, 1917. p. 12. Retrieved December 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 3 4 Marino 2013, p. 231.
- ↑ "Advance Guard of Suffrage Emergency Corps Arrives". New-York Tribune. May 2, 1920. p. 14. Retrieved August 23, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Harper 1922, p. 68.
- ↑ Bennewitz 2020a, p. 87.
- ↑ "Dudley Field Malone on Woman Suffrage". Hartford Courant. January 27, 1918. p. 6. Retrieved November 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Marino 2017, p. 55.
- ↑ Thornton, Steve (May 27, 2020). "Josephine Bennett: Hartford's City Mother - Connecticut History". CTHumanities Project. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
- ↑ "Warm Hearing on Suffrage Bills Before Judiciary". Hartford Courant. February 28, 1917. p. 13. Retrieved December 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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