This is a list of Montana suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Montana.
Groups Equal Suffrage Party, formed in 1897. Bozeman Equal Suffrage Club, documented in 1895. Helena Business Women's Suffrage Club. Helena Equal Suffrage Club. Missoula Teachers' Suffrage Committee. Montana Equal Suffrage Association (MESA), created in 1912. Montana Men's Equal Suffrage League. Montana Woman's Suffrage Association (MWSA), formed in 1895. Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Suffragists
Lillian Agnew (Great Falls). Mary Long Alderson. Mabel E. Staats (Bozeman).Crystal Alegria, “History of Property,” in S. Wells and E. Wren, 311 South Grand Avenue Architecture & Engineering Record, Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, March 26, 2025, p. 4. Mary B. Atwater. Ida Auerbach. Edith Clinch. Helen P. Clarke. Eva Warren Collier (Bedford). Ota E. Cummings (Billings). Maria M. Dean (Helena). Ella Knowles Haskell (Helena). Maggie Smith Hathaway (Ravalli County). Hazel Hunkins (Billings). Emma Ingalls (Flathead County). Grace Rankin Kinney. Mary Alderson Long. Clara McAdow (Fergus County). Mary E. O'Neill (Butte). Martha Edgerton Rolfe Plassmann (Great Falls). Jeannette Rankin (Missoula County). Wellington D. Rankin. Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa.Hitchcock, Calyn. "Biographical Sketch of Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa," in Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States: "Part III: Mainstream Suffragists—National American Woman Suffrage Association." Ann Arbor, Michigan: Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company, retrieved online May 9, 2021. Harriet P. Sanders. Sarepta Sanders (Helena). Mittie L. Shoup (Missoula). Gertrude Sylvester. Jessie Thompson (Bozeman). Clara B. Tower. Josephine Trigg (Great Falls). Elizabeth Donohue Vaughn (Great Falls). Mary C. Wheeler (Helena). Belle Fligelman Winestine (Helena).
Politicians supporting women's suffrage Joseph Burt Annin. Peter Breen. William A. Clark. John S. Huseby. Hiram Knowles. Perry McAdow (Fergus County). Wellington Rankin. Francis E. Sargeant.
Publications The Suffrage Daily News, published in 1914 in Helena. Woman's Voice, published on suffrage in 1913.
Suffragists campaigning in Montana Henry Blackwell. Kathryn Blake. Carrie Chapman Catt. Ida Craft. Emma Smith DeVoe. Laura A. Gregg. Mary Garrett Hay. Margaret Hinchey. Rosalie Jones. Harriet Burton Laidlaw. James Lees Laidlaw. Gail Laughlin. Anna Howard Shaw. Frances Willard.
Anti-suffragists Groups Montana Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, formed in summer of 1914. Travel Club of Great Falls.
Politicians opposing women's suffrage Allen Joy. Martin Maginnis. George L. Ramsey (Gallatin County). Joseph K. Toole.
See also Timeline of women's suffrage in Montana Women's suffrage in Montana Women's suffrage in the United States
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