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Henrietta Wells Livermore (May 22, 1864 - October 15, 1933) was an American suffragette. She organized the first meeting of
suffragists Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to v ...
at her
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apartment in 1910, which became the
Women's National Republican Club The Women's National Republican Club is the oldest private club for Republican women in the United States, and was founded by Henrietta Wells Livermore in 1921.The club grew out of the earlier women's suffrage movement in New York which led to th ...
.


Biography

She was born as Henrietta Wells on May 22, 1864, to Judge Henry Jackson Wells and Maria A. Goodnow in
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. She attended Harvard Grammar School then
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and graduated in 1887. She receiver her master's degree in 1893 from the same institution. On October 21, 1890, she married Arthur Leslie Livermore in
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. He was a New York lawyer, and they lived in
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. They had as children: Henry Wells Livermore (?-1959) and Russell Blake Livermore. In 1920 she was a member of the
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and urged women to vote:
You have it in your hands to win. You have new ideas, new methods in politics, and I cannot impress upon you too strongly the part you have to play in the coming campaign. You must cooperate with the men and have confidence in your own ability. The greatest work of the campaign will be the overcoming of the inertia and indifference of those who have a vote."
She died on October 15, 1933.


External links


Women's National Republican Club history


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Livermore, Henrietta Wells 1864 births 1933 deaths American suffragists New York (state) Republicans