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.

Groups

American Equal Rights Association (AERA), created in 1866 American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), created in 1869 Association for the Advancement of Women (AAW) College Equal Suffrage League Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage Equal Franchise Society. The Men's League National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), created in 1890 through the merger of AWSA and NWSA National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) Prison Special Silent Sentinels Suffrage Special Swimming suffragists

Suffragists

A Mary Newbury Adams (1837–1901) – suffragist and education advocate Teresa Adams (c 1869 –1947) – African-American suffragist, leader of the Iowa Association of Colored Women's Clubs (IACWC) suffrage committee"African American Women". Women's Suffrage in Iowa Scrapbook, University of Iowa. Retrieved February 10, 2025. Jane Addams (1860–1935) – social activist and suffragist Nina E. Allender (1873–1957) – speaker, organizer and cartoonist Naomi Anderson (1863–1899) – African-American suffragist, temperance advocate Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – co-founder and leader National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), one of the leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote, was popularly known as the Susan B Anthony Amendment Annie Arniel (1873–1924) – member of the Silent Sentinels, arrested eight times in direct actions Rachel Foster Avery (1858–1919) – corresponding secretary for NWSA and the International Council of Women; vice president of NAWSA

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Elnora Monroe Babcock (1852–1934) – pioneer leader in the suffrage movement; chair of the NAWSA press department. Addie L. Ballou (1838–1916) – activist, journalist and lecturer on temperance, women's suffrage, and prison reform Alva Belmont (1853–1933) – founder of the Political Equality League that was in 1913 merged into the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage Elsie Lincoln Benedict (1885–1970) – suffragist leader and speaker Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) – journalist, activist, helped bring the AWSA and NWSA together Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) – preacher and contributor to the Woman's Journal Henry Browne Blackwell (1825–1909) – co-founder of AWSA and Woman's Journal. Catharine Paine Blaine (1829–1908) – suffragist, teacher, and pioneer, one of the signers of the Declaration of Sentiments Lillie Devereux Blake (1833–1913) – writer, suffragist, reformer Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (1856–1940) – writer, contributor to History of Woman Suffrage, founded Women's Political Union, daughter of pioneering activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) – women's rights and temperance advocate; her name was associated with women's clothing reform style known as bloomers Marietta Bones (1842–1901) – suffragist, social reformer, philanthropist Helen Varick Boswell (1869–1942) – member of the Woman's National Republican Association and the General Federation of Women's Clubs 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 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 Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – women's rights advocate, co-founder of the National Woman's Party

C Jennie Curtis Cannon (1851–1929) – vice president of NAWSA Marion Hamilton Carter (1865–1937) – educator, journalist, suffragist author Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) – president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women, campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Emily Thornton Charles (1845–1895) – poet, journalist, suffragist, newspaper founder. Tennessee Celeste Claflin (1844–1923) – one of the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, advocate of legalized prostitution Laura Clay (1849–1941) – co-founder and first president of Kentucky Equal Rights Association, leader of women's suffrage movement, active in the Democratic Party 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 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 Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African-American community activist and leader in the women's club movement Mary Leggett Cooke (1852–1938) – Unitarian minister; suffragist Ida Craft (1861–1947) – known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes

D Carrie Chase Davis (1863–1953) – physician, suffragist Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (1813–1876) – a founder of the New England Woman Suffrage Association; active with the National Woman Suffrage Association; co-arranged and presided at the first National Women's Rights Convention Rheta Childe Dorr (1868–1948) – journalist, suffragist newspaper editor, writer, and political activistMari Jo Buhle, "Rheta Childe Dorr," in John D. Buenker and Edward R. Kantowicz (eds.), Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988; pg. 119. Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) – African-American social reformer, orator, writer, statesman Miriam Howard Dubose (1862–1945) – a founder of Georgia Woman Suffrage Association (GWSA) Joseph A. Dugdale (1810-1896) – Quaker social reformer, orator, abolitionist*

E Crystal Eastman (1881–1928) – lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist Mary F. Eastman – educator, lecturer and writer Max Eastman (1883–1969) – writer, philosopher, poet, political activist Julia Emory (1885–1979) – suffragist from Maryland, protestor with the Silent Sentinels Elizabeth Piper Ensley (1848–1919) – Caribbean-American woman who was the treasurer of the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association Elizabeth Glendower Evans (1856–1937) – social reformer and suffragist

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Janet Ayer Fairbank (1878–1951) – author and champion of progressive causes Lillian Feickert (1877–1945) – suffragette; first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate Mary Fels (1863–1953) – philanthropist, suffragist, Georgist 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 Margaret Foley (1875–1957) – working class suffragist, active in Massachusetts and campaigning in other states Mariana Thompson Folsom (1845–1909) – Universalist minister and lecturer for Iowa Suffrage Association and Texas Equal Rights Elisabeth Freeman (1876–1942) – Suffrage Hike participant and activist Antoinette Funk (1869–1942) – lawyer and executive secretary of the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; supporter of the women's movement in WWI

G Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) – activist, freethinker, author, co-founder of NWSA 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 Josephine Sophia White Griffing (1814–1872) – active in the American Equal Rights Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873) – abolitionist, writer

H Blanche Moore Haines (1865–1944) – physician; Michigan State chair of the National Woman Suffrage Association Ida Husted Harper (1851–1931) – organizer, major writer and historian of the US suffrage movement Florence Jaffray Harriman (1870–1967) – social reformer, organizer and diplomat 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 Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the US Elsie Hill (1883–1970) – NWP activist Helena Hill (1875–1958) – NWP activist, jailed for protest Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) – prominent abolitionist, social activist and poet Emily Howland (1827–1929) – philanthropist, educator

I Inez Haynes Irwin (1873–1970) – co-founder of the College Equal Suffrage League, active in National Woman's Party, wrote the party's history Josephine Irwin (1890–1984) – suffragist from Ohio, advocate for Equal Rights Amendment

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Martha Waldron Janes (1832–1913) – minister, suffragist, columnist. Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934) – African-American community organizer, creator of the Susan B. Anthony clubs 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 Laura M. Johns (1849–1935) – suffragist, journalist Adelaide Johnson (1859–1955) – sculptor who created a monument for suffragists in Washington, D.C. Maria I. Johnston (1835–1921) – author, journalist, editor and lecturer from Virginia Mary Johnston (1870–1936) – Virginia writer, author, and activist, spoke at the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession Jane Elizabeth Jones (1813–1896) – suffragist, abolitionist, member of the early women's rights movement Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) – socialite, took part in Suffrage Hike, known as "General Jones." Amy R. Juengling (1886–1974) – suffragist, educator, and women's rights activist

K Helen Keller (1880–1968) – author and political activist Lillian G. Kohlhamer (1870–1929) – suffragist and peace activist Florence E. Kollock (1848–1925) – Universalist minister and lecturer

L Mary Livermore (1820–1905) – journalist and advocate of women's rights Adella Hunt Logan (1863–1915) – African-American intellectual, activist and leading suffragist of the historically black Tuskegee University's Woman's Club

M Katherine Duer Mackay (1878–1930) – founder of the Equal Franchise Society. Eugenia St. John Mann (1847–1932) – ordained minister, evangelist, temperance lecturer, suffragist; president, Kansas Equal Suffrage Association Ellen A. Martin (1847–1916) – Illinois lawyer, successfully voted in 1891 because she found a loophole in her town charter Katharine McCormick (1875-1967) – vice president and treasurer of NAWSA; vice president of League of Women Voters Inez Milholland (1886–1916) – key participant in the National Woman's Party and the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession 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 Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) – Quaker, abolitionist; women's rights activist; social reformer

N John Neal (1793–1876) – writer, critic, first American women's rights lecturerDaggett, Windsor. A Down-East Yankee From the District of Maine. A.J. Huston, 1920. p. 30 Harriet Noble (1851–1919), American academic and suffragist Mary A. Nolan (died 1925) – one of the oldest suffragists active on NWP picket lines

O Adelina Otero-Warren (1881–1965) – Congressional Union leader in New Mexico, honored on a 2022 American Women quarterRuíz, Vicki, and Virginia Sánchez Korrol. Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community. New York: Oxford UP, 2005. Print. Gwendolen Overton (1874/76-1958) – favored woman suffrage; wrote magazine and newspaper articles on the topic

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