List of New York (state) suffragists
This is a list of New York suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in New York state.
Groups
- American Equal Rights Association.
- Equality League of Self Supporting Women.
- Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission.
- The Men's League.
- New York Equal Suffrage League.
- New York State Suffrage Association.
- Poughkeepsie Woman Suffrage Party.
- Woman Suffrage Party.
Suffragists
A- Edith Ainge
- Margaret Chanler Aldrich
- Lillian Anderson Turner Alexander
- Ann Allebach
- Charlotte Bolles Anthony
- Mary Stafford Anthony
- Susan B. Anthony.
- Minta Beach
- Caroline Lexow Babcock
- Elnora M. Babcock
- Isabel Barrows
- Juanita Breckenridge Bates
- Robert Cameron Beadle—member of the Men's League.
- Mary Ritter Beard
- Alva Belmont
- Emily Montague Mulkin Bishop – lecturer, instructor, author, pioneer suffragist.
- Frances Maule Bjorkman
- Irene Moorman Blackstone – African-American suffragist instrumental in integrating the suffrage fight in New York.
- Katherine Devereux Blake – educator, suffragist, peace activist.
- Lillie Devereux Blake
- Harriot Stanton Blatch
- Minta Bosley Allen Trotman
- Helen Varick Boswell
- Gertrude Foster Brown – pianist, suffragette, author of Your vote and how to use it.
- Emma Bugbee – journalist.
- Helen Louise Bullock
- Celia M. Burleigh
- Lucy Burns – women's rights advocate, co-founder of the NWP.
- Abigail Bush
- Elinor Byrns
- Jennie Curtis Cannon – Vice President of NAWSA.
- Mariana Wright Chapman – American social reformer, suffragist.
- Tennessee Celeste Claflin – one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, advocate of legalized prostitution.
- Elizabeth V. Colbert
- Emily Parmely Collins – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights.
- Ida Craft – known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes.
- George William Curtis
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- Genevieve Earle
- Max Eastman—member of the Men's League.
- Mary E. Eato
- Helen Gilbert Ecob
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- Olive Stott Gabriel
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Sarah J. Garnet
- Rhoda Fox Graves
- Cordelia A. Greene, physician; honorary president, Wyoming County, New York Suffrage Association.
- Jean Brooks Greenleaf – president, New York State Suffrage Association.
- Helen Hoy Greeley – Secretary, New Jersey Next Campaign, stump speaker, organizer, and mobilizer in California and Oregon campaigns, speaker for Women's Political Union in NYC.
- Mary Young Cheney Greeley
- Mary Halton
- Oreola Williams Haskell – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper.
- Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck
- Mary Garrett Hay – suffrage organizer around the United States.
- Mary Foote Henderson
- Ami Mali Hicks
- Margaret Hinchey
- Marie Jenney Howe
- Mary Seymour Howell
- Maud Humphrey
- Arria Sargent Huntington
- Addie Waites Hunton – suffragist, race and gender activist, writer, political organizer, educator.
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- Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi – medical physician, teacher, scientist, and writer.
- Paula O. Jakobi
- Hester C. Jeffrey – African American community organizer, creator of the Susan B. Anthony clubs.
- Rosalie Gardiner Jones – socialite, took part in Suffrage Hike, known as "General Jones."
- Verina Morton Jones
- Edna Buckman Kearns – National Woman's Party campaigner, known for her horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon.
- Harriette A. Keyser – industrial reformer, social worker, author; co-organizer, New York Woman Suffrage Association.
- Harriette A. Keyser
- Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt – settlement house worker, socialist, and suffragist.
- Anna M. Kross
- Mabel Ping-Hua Lee – suffragist, advocate for women's rights and for the Chinese immigrant community.
- Clara Lemlich
- Miriam Leslie – publisher, author; namesake of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission.
- Cynthia Leonard
- Mary Lilly
- Henrietta Wells Livermore
- Rose Livingston
- Sophia Monté Neuberger Loebinger
- Mary Hillard Loines
- Clemence S. Lozier
- Maritcha Remond Lyons
- Pauline Arnoux MacArthur
- Katherine Duer Mackay – founder of the Equal Franchise Society.
- Theresa Malkiel – labor organizer and suffragist.
- Hazel MacKaye
- Jessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKaye
- Theresa Malkiel
- Maud Malone
- Wenona Marlin.
- Abbie K. Mason
- Annie Mathews
- Victoria Earle Matthews
- Samuel Joseph May
- Mary Ann M'Clintock – suffragist who helped plan the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.
- Thomas M'Clintock – abolitionist and suffragist, husband of Mary Ann M'Clintock.
- Harriet May Mills – prominent civil rights leader, played a major role in women's rights movement.
- Mary Molson
- Elisabeth Worth Muller
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- Martha B. O'Donnell – temperance activist, newspaper and magazine editor and publisher.
- Eliza Wright Osborne
- Herbert Parsons—member of the Men's League.
- Clara Louise Payne
- Mary Gray Peck.
- E. Jean Nelson Penfield, president, Woman Suffrage Party, 1910-12
- Amy and Isaac Post
- Charlotte B. Ray
- Eugénie M. Rayé-Smith
- Alice Riggs Hunt
- Belle de Rivera – clubwoman; president, New York Equal Suffrage League.
- Ruth Logan Roberts – suffragist, activist, YWCA leader, and host of a salon in Harlem.
- Elizabeth Selden Rogers
- Margaret Hayden Rorke
- Ida Sammis
- Nina Samorodin – Russian-born NWP member, executive secretary of National Labor Alliance for Trade Relations with and Recognition of Russia, secretary of Women's Trade-Union League.
- Eleanor Butler Sanders
- Rose Schneiderman
- Janet Scudder.
- Sylvia B. Seaman
- Alice Wiley Seay
- Nettie Rogers Shuler – writer, suffragist.
- May Gorslin Preston Slosson – educator and first woman to obtain a doctoral degree in philosophy in the United States.
- Jane Norman Smith – suffragist and reformer. Chairman of the National Woman's Party from 1927 to 1929.
- Elizabeth Smith Miller
- Alice D. Snyder.
- Jean Spahr
- Clara B. Spence
- Lucy J. Sprague
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Kathryn H. Starbuck
- Catharine A. F. Stebbins
- Susan McKinney Steward
- Kate Stoneman
- Alice Harrell Strickland
- Mary Burnett Talbert
- Kathleen de Vere Taylor
- Dorothy Thompson – Buffalo and New York activist, later journalist and radio broadcaster.
- Katrina Ely Tiffany
- Elizabeth Richards Tilton – founder of the Brooklyn Women's Club, poetry editor of The Revolution.
- Annie Rensselaer Tinker – suffragist, volunteer nurse in World War I, and philanthropist.
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- Amelie Veiller Van Norman – educator; president, Joan of Arc Suffrage League; vice-president, New York County Suffrage League; member, Suffrage Party, New York City.
- Narcissa Cox Vanderlip
- Fanny Garrison Villard
- Oswald Garrison Villard—member of the Men's League.
- Lillian Wald
- Mary Edwards Walker
- Anna White
- Vira Boarman Whitehouse
- Rosalie Loew Whitney
- Julia Wilbur
- Catherine Mary Douge Williams
- Portia Willis
- Martha Coffin Wright