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Alice Hall Hill
Worked with WCD- Listed in Gail M. Beaton, Colorado Women: A History (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012).
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Caroline Nichols Churchill
Female journalist who wrote in support of the suffrage movement in Colorado. She started the Colorado Antelope newspaper in 1879, and was vocal in her support of equal suffrage. She later renamed the newspaper the Queen Bee. A staunch Populist, she also used her paper to advocate for labor unions, birth control, temperance, and the humane treatment
of animals.
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Caroline Romney
In 1880, she left Leadville and freighted her Gordon Hand Press to Durango where she published their first daily paper, the Durango Record. She left Durango in 1882.
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Carrie Clyde Holly
One of the first three women elected state representatives in 1894. She introduced an Equal Right Amendment, but it was ahead of it's time and did not pass. Her House Bill 59, defining the “age of consent”
(the age at which a man can legally argue that a woman consented to sex), did pass.
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Carrie Land Chapman/ Carrie Chapman Catt
President of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), Carrie land Chapman came to Colorado in 1893 to support the vote for women's suffrage.
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Clara Cressingham
One of the first three women elected state representatives in 1894. Elected secretary of the Republican House Caucus.
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Colorado State Constitution
Gave women rights to vote in local school board elections and mandated a general election to vote to extend suffrage to women in Colorado.
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Dr. Alida C. Avery
Headed the first Colorado Woman Suffrage Association.
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Eliza F. Routt
Worked with WCD- Listed in Gail M. Beaton, Colorado Women: A History (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012).
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Elizabeth Byers
Worked with WCD- Listed in Gail M. Beaton, Colorado Women: A History (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012).
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Elizabeth Iliff Warren
Worked with WCD- Listed in Gail M. Beaton, Colorado Women: A History (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012).
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Elizabeth Ensley
Treasurer of Colorado Equal Suffrage Association, Elizabeth Ensley was instrumental in winning over black male voters to the suffrage cause.
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Ella Adams
Worked with WCD and integral to women's suffrage- Gail M. Beaton, Colorado Women: A History (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012).
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Ella Denison
Worked with WCD- Listed in Gail M. Beaton, Colorado Women: A History (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012).
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Frances Klock
One of the first three women elected state representatives in 1894. served as chair of the Indian and Veterans Affairs Committee and sponsored legislation to create a home for delinquent girls. She later served as
the home’s director.
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General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC)
National club formed to connect all women's suffrage organizations in 1890. Included 2 million members by 1914.
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Governor Edward M. McCook
1870 territorial Governor who supported women's suffrage.
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Helen Marsh Wixson
Worked with WCD and integral to women's suffrage- Gail M. Beaton, Colorado Women: A History (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012).
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Helen Ring Robinson
No article on one of our first female senators and her work for women's suffrage and progressive legislation.
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Henry Blackwell
His support for suffragists is mentioned in his daughter's article, Henrietta “Nettie” Bromwell, but no article exists for his work.
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Ione Hannah
Worked with WCD and integral to women's suffrage- Gail M. Beaton, Colorado Women: A History (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012).
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J. Warner Mills
Sponsored a bill to submit the issue of women’s suffrage to voters in the next general election during the Ninth General Assembly in 1893.
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Katharine Patterson
Worked with WCD and integral to women's suffrage- Gail M. Beaton, Colorado Women: A History (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012).
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Lucy Stone
Brought to Colorado to speak for women's suffrage before the 1877 election.
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Margaret "Molly" Brown
No article on Maggie's life or work for the suffrage movement… I'm really surprised. I am calling this article for myself, maybe.
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Margaret Campbell
Organized a Colorado women's suffrage organization in 1876.
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Margaret Evans
Worked with WCD- Listed in Gail M. Beaton, Colorado Women: A History (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012).
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Margaret P. Campbell
Worked with WCD- Listed in Gail M. Beaton, Colorado Women: A History (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2012).
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Mary C.C. Bradford
Worked with WCD and integral to women's suffrage. President of the National Women’s Suffrage Association (1901)
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Ninth General Assembly session
In 1893, J. Warner Mills sponsored a bill to submit the issue of women’s suffrage to voters in the next general election.
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Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage League
Later known as Twenty-Second Avenue Study Club, this was a suffrage support club that worked to create educated voters after Colorado women gained the right to vote.
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Reverend Joseph P. Machebeuf
Opposed women's suffrage in Colorado.
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Sarah Platt Decker
In 1894, she was elected president of the Women's Club of Denver (WCD) and supported national equal suffrage. President Roosevelt appointed her as the only women to serve on the national convention on the conservation of natural resources in 1908.
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Susan B. Anthony
Brought to Colorado to speak for women's suffrage before the 1877 election. Spent most of her time in the south trying to convince Mexican immigrant men that women's suffrage was needed.
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Woman’s Club of Denver, WCD
Largest women's club in Colorado. Accepted unmarried and working women when other clubs only allowed middle-class married women.
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