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List of Texas suffragists
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This is a list of Texas suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Texas.
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Groups
Flier for the second annual convention of the Texas Equal Rights Association (TERA) in June of 1894 - Austin Friends of Female Suffrage.[2]
- Austin Woman Suffrage Association.[3]
- Colored Welfare League of Austin.[4]
- Dallas Equal Suffrage Association (DESA), started on March 15, 1913, in Dallas.[5]
- Equal Franchise League of San Antonio.[6]
- El Paso Equal Franchise League.[7]
- El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Enfranchisement League started in 1918.[8]
- Galveston Equal Suffrage Association.[9]
- Galveston Negro Women's Voter League.[4]
- Georgetown Equal Suffrage League, started in 1916.[10]
- Houston Equal Suffrage Association.[11]
- Houston Suffrage League.[12]
- National Woman's Party, Texas chapter started in 1916.[1]
- Negro Women's Voter League (Galveston), formed in 1917.[1]
- Smith County Equal Franchise League (Tyler).[13]
- Texas Equal Rights Association (TERA) formed in 1893.[1]
- Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs endorses suffrage in 1917.[1]
- Texas Woman Suffrage Association, which later becomes the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA) in 1916.[14]
- Waco Equal Franchise Society.[15]
- Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Texas chapter, endorses women's suffrage in 1888.[1]
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Suffragists
- Christia Adair.[1]
- Sarah C. Acheson (Denison).[16]
- Jessie Ames (Georgetown).[10]
- Annie Webb Blanton (Houston, Denton).[17]
- Eleanor Brackenridge (San Antonio).[18]
- Hattie Brewer (Dallas).[19]
- Belle Murray Burchill (Fort Worth).[20]
- Belle Critchett (El Paso).[21]
- Minnie Fisher Cunningham.[1]
- Ellen Lawson Dabbs.[22]
- Grace Danforth (Dallas).[23]
- Alzina Orndorff DeGroff (El Paso).[24]
- Louise Dietrich (El Paso).[25]
- Nell Gertrude Horne Doom (Austin).[26]
- A. Caswell Ellis (Austin).[27]
- Mary Heard Ellis (Austin).[28]
- Marin B. Fenwick (San Antonio).[29]
- Elizabeth Finnigan Fain (Houston).[30]
- Annette Finnigan (Houston).[9]
- Ermina Thompson Folsom (Austin).[31]
Jane Y. McCallum - Elizabeth Austin Turner Fry (San Antonio).[32]
- Eva Goldsmith (Houston).[33]
- Rena Maverick Green.[34]
- Rebecca Henry Hayes (Dallas).[1]
- Sarah Grimke Wattles Hiatt (Eldorado, Texas).[1][9]
- Elizabeth Hart Good Houston (Dallas).[35]
- Margaret Bell Houston (Dallas).[36]
- Jovita Idar.[37]
- May Jarvis.[38]
- Mary Kate Hunter (Palestine).[39]
- Ellen Keller (Fort Worth).[40]
- Helen Jarvis Kenyon.[38]
- Edith Hinkle League (Galveston, San Antonio).[41]
- Nona Boren Mahoney (Dallas).[42]
- Alice McFadin McAnulty.[43]
- Jane Y. McCallum.[3]
- Emma J. Mellette (Waco).[38]
- Perle Potter Penfield Newell (Houston).[44]
- Elisabet Ney.[38]
- Anna Pennybacker (Austin, Tyler).[45]
- Eliza E. Peterson (Texarkana).[9]
- Elizabeth Herndon Potter (Tyler).[13]
- Mary Withers Roper (Houston).[46]
- Maude Sampson (El Paso).[8]
- Jane Madden Spell (Waco).[15]
- Florence M. Sterling (Houston).[47]
- Helen M. Stoddard (Fort Worth).[38]
- Sara Isadore Sutherland (Dallas).[48]
- Martha Goodwin Tunstall.[9]
- Anna Elizabeth Leger Walker (Austin).[49]
- Hortense Sparks Ward (Houston).[11]
- Lulu White (Houston).[50]
- Clara M. Snell Wolfe (Austin).[51]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
- Jess Alexander Baker.[9]
- Paul Page (Bastrop).[52]
- Charles Culberson.[37]
- Ebenezer Lafayette Dohoney (Paris).[53]
- Albert Jennings Fountain (El Paso).[54]
- Claude Hudspeth (El Paso).[37]
- Governor William P. Hobby.[9]
- John Jones (Amarillo).[37]
- Charles B. Metcalfe.[55]
- Barry Miller (Dallas).[56]
- Titus H. Mundine.[9]
- Lucian Parrish (Henrietta).[37]
- Morris Sheppard.[37]
- Hatton Sumners (Dallas).[37]
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Suffragists who campaigned in Texas
- Carrie Chapman Catt, lectured in Houston in 1903.[57]
- Mariana Thompson Folsom, toured Texas in 1884.[58]
- Prison Special, arrived in San Antonio in 1919.[59]
- Anna Howard Shaw, suffrage tour in 1908 and in 1912.[60][61]
- Ethel Snowden, spoke at the 1913 Texas Equal Suffrage Association convention.[61]
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in Houston in 1875.[62]
Places
- Adolphus Hotel, site of annual suffragist luncheon.[63]
- Grand Windsor Hotel, site of the organization of first statewide suffrage group in Texas, 1893.[64]
- Saint Anthony Hotel, site of major women's suffrage convention in 1913.[61]
- Texas State Fair, site of women's suffrage activism.[65]
Publications
Anti-suffragists
Groups
- Texas Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (TAOWS) started in 1916.[14]
Individuals
- Joseph Weldon Bailey (Gainesville).[67]
- Ida Darden.[68]
- John Nance Garner.[37]
- Governor James Ferguson.[69]
- Pauline Wells (Brownsville, Texas).[70]
- James B. Wells, Jr. (Brownsville).[71]
See also
References
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