Born: 2 January 1867, United States
Died: 5 May 1953
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Cornelia Templeton
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Alaska’s male-dominated government passed women’s suffrage, but female leaders organized and lobbied to make voting rights a reality. Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher drafted a petition that granted women the right to vote and gathered signatures around Alaska. Another important suffragist was Lena Morrow Lewis, who traveled around Alaska in the 1910s and spoke to large audiences in Fairbanks, Valdez, and Juneau about voting rights and other social reform issues.