Susan Walker Fitzgerald
The first woman Democrat elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature. Having worked actively in the statewide suffrage campaign, she was elected in 1922 and served one term.
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Amanda Melvina Lougee
Suffragist and inventor who took over management of Clifton Manufacturing Company when her brother died
Mary A Mahan
The first woman member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and suffragist
Ray Strachey
Started out to be an engineer but spent most of her life campaigning for women’s rights.
Mary Morton Kehew
Mary Morton Kehew led the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union from 1892 until her death in 1919.
Dr Mary Safford-Blake
Mary Jane Safford (1834-1891), known as the “Cairo Angel,” was a nurse during the Civil War and later a physician and advocate for women’s health and suffrage. She taught at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Jennie Loitman Barron
The first full time woman judge in Massachusetts and the first woman judge on the Massachusetts Superior Court
Maria Weston Chapman
A founder of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
Ednah Dow Cheney
American activist who worked tirelessly for women’s rights, especially suffrage and the abolition of slavery.
Sophie de Condorcet
French intellectual and advocate for the downtrodden