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Commonwealth Museum   Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin
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Suffragist of the Month: Prominent Suffragists


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U.S. Postal Service stamp commemorating the 19th Amendment, issued May 28, 1998
U.S. Postal Service stamp commemorating the 19th Amendment, issued May 28, 1998

Prominent Suffragists

* This list is in chronological order based on the period of greatest activism for women’s suffrage

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Lucretia Coffin Mott
  • Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
  • Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
  • Sarah Moore Grimké
  • Angelina Grimké
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Lucy Stone
  • Henry Blackwell
  • Abby Kelley Foster
  • Ernestine Rose
  • Amelia Bloomer
  • Frederick
  • Douglass
  • Lydia Maria Child
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Julia Ward Howe
  • Mary Ashton Rice Livermore
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Abigail Williams May
  • Frances E. Willard
  • Matilda Joslyn Gage
  • Maria Louise Baldwin
  • Anna Howard Shaw
  • Fanny Garrison Villard
  • Alice Stone Blackwell
  • Maud Wood Park
  • Pauline Agassiz Shaw
  • Harriot Stanton Blatch
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Blanche Ames Ames
  • Mary Kenney O’Sullivan
  • Mary Church Terrell
  • Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
  • Inez Milholland
  • Hazel MacKaye
  • Mary Hutcheson
  • Page
  • Alva Vanderbilt
  • Belmont
  • Lucy Burns
  • Alice Paul
  • Crystal Catherine Eastman
  • Florence Hope Luscomb
  • Margaret Foley
  • Josephine Collins
  • Susan Walker Fitzgerald
  • Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Jennie Loitman Barron
  • Susan B. Anthony

* The list is in chronological order based on period of greatest activism for women’s suffrage