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Ella St. Clair Thompson (1870–1944) was an American suffragist.


Life

Thompson née Clapp was born on January 10, 1870, in
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. In 1908, she married Edwin St. Clair Thompson. The couple settled in Washington, D.C. Thompson was an active suffragist. She was a member of the
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage was an American organization formed in 1913 led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to campaign for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage. It was inspired by the United Kingdom's suffragette ...
(CUWS), where she served as the North Carolina Field Secretary. In 1915, she traveled to the western states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. In New Mexico, Thompson worked with
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to recruit members for a new chapter of the CUWS. The women made a particular effort to recruit Hispanic women to the cause, printing leaflets in Spanish as well as English. In 1916, she traveled to Missouri campaigning for Republican
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' failed presidential candidacy. Hughes supported suffrage on a federal level, as an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In 1917, Thompson traveled with
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to work on setting up a new branch of the
National Woman's Party The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage. After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the NW ...
(NWP). Thompson was a member of the National Woman's Party, serving as the North Carolina Chair. In 1918, the Thompsons moved to New York City. The following year, 1919, Ella was arrested outside of the Metropolitan Opera House, demonstrating against
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. Edwin died in 1933. Ella died in
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, on December 17, 1944.


See also

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List of suffragists and suffragettes This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the public ...


References

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