This is a list of suffragists and suffrage activists working in the United States and its territories. This list includes suffragists who worked across state lines or nationally. See individual state or territory lists for other American suffragists not listed here.
Susan B Anthony (center) with Laura Clay, Anna Howard Shaw, Alice Stone Blackwell, Annie Kennedy Bidwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida Husted Harper, and Rachel Foster Avery in 1896
Rachel Foster Avery (1858-1919) – corresponding secretary for NWSA and the International Council of Women; vice president of NAWSA.[19]
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Ida B Wells-Barnett at a 1913 suffrage parade
Elnora Monroe Babcock (1852–1934) – pioneer leader in the suffrage movement; chair of the NAWSA press department.[20]
Addie L. Ballou (1838–1916) – activist, journalist and lecturer on temperance, women's suffrage, and prison reform.[21]
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) – African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the civil rights movement.[22]
Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) – women's rights and temperance advocate; her name was associated with women's clothing reform style known as bloomers.[28]
Marietta Bones (1842–1901) – suffragist, social reformer, philanthropist.[29]
Helen Varick Boswell (1869–1942) – member of the Woman's National Republican Association and the General Federation of Women's Clubs.[30]
Lucy Gwynne Branham (1892–1966) – professor, organizer, lobbyist, active in the National Women's Party and its Silent Sentinels, daughter of suffragette Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham.[31]
Olympia Brown (1835–1926) – activist, first woman to graduate from a theological school, as well as becoming the first full-time ordained minister, suffrage speaker.[32]
Mary Barr Clay (1839–1924) – first Kentuckian to hold the office of president in a national woman's organization (American Woman Suffrage Association), and the first Kentucky woman to speak publicly on women's rights.[40]
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the US to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights.[41]
Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement.[42][43]
Lillian Feickert (1877–1945) – suffragette; first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate.[58]
Mary Fels (1863–1953) – philanthropist, suffragist, Georgist.[59][60]
Sara Bard Field (1882–1974) – active with the National Advisory Council, National Woman's Party, and in Oregon and Nevada; crossed the US to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures to President Wilson.[61]
Margaret Foley (1875–1957) – working class suffragist, active in Massachusetts and campaigning in other states.[62]
Mariana Thompson Folsom (1845–1909) – Universalist minister and lecturer for Iowa Suffrage Association and Texas Equal Rights.[63]
Helen Hoy Greeley (1878–1965) – Secretary, New Jersey Next Campaign (1915), stump speaker, organizer, and mobilizer in California and Oregon campaigns (1911), speaker for Women's Political Union in NYC.[67][68]
Josephine Sophia White Griffing (1814–1872) – active in the American Equal Rights Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association.[69]
Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper.[74]
Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934) – African American community organizer, creator of the Susan B. Anthony clubs.[81]
Izetta Jewel (1883–1978) – stage actress, women's rights activist, politician and first woman to second the nomination of a presidential candidate at a major American political party convention.[82]
Mary Livermore (1820–1905) – journalist and advocate of women's rights.[93]
Adella Hunt Logan (1863–1915) – African-American intellectual, activist and leading suffragist of the historically black Tuskegee University's Woman's Club.[94]
Virginia Minor (1824–1894) – co-founder and president of the Woman's Suffrage Association of Missouri; unsuccessfully argued in Minor v Happersett (1874 Supreme Court case) that the Fourteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote.[99]
Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) – Quaker, abolitionist; women's rights activist; social reformer.[100]
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John Neal (1793–1876) – writer, critic, first American women's rights lecturer.[101]
Mary A. Nolan (died 1925) – one of the oldest suffragists active on NWP picket lines.[102]
Anita Pollitzer (1894–1975) – photographer, served as National chairman in NWP.[110]
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Joy Young Rogers outside the White HouseJeannette Rankin (1880–1973) – first US female member of Congress (R) Montana Rankin opened congressional debate on a Constitutional amendment granting universal suffrage to women, and voted for the resolution in 1919, which would become the 19th Amendment.[111]
Harriet Tubman (1822–1913) – African-American abolitionist, humanitarian and Union spy during the American Civil War.[147]
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Narcissa Cox Vanderlip, née Mabel Narcissa Cox (1879–1966) – leading New York suffragist and co-founder of the New York State League of Women Voters.[148][149][150]
Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) – women's rights activist, first woman to speak before a committee of Congress, first female candidate for President of the United States, one of the first women to start a weekly newspaper (Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly,) activist for labor reforms, advocate of free love.[163]
