Kate Himrod Biggers (1849–1935) was an American suffragist. She served as president of the Oklahoma Woman's Suffrage Association.
Life
Biggers née Himrod was born on July 15, 1849, in
Waterford, Pennsylvania.
She married Thomas B. Biggers in 1874 and the couple moved west, living in
Painterhood, Kansas, then the
Chickasha, Indian Territory, finally settling in
Marlow, Oklahoma
Marlow is a city in Stephens County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 4,662 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Marlow is located in northern Stephens County, in the southern part of the state, at (34.643410, -97.958806).
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, in 1910.
Biggers joined the local suffrage association in Chickasha. In 1904 the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) helped form the ''Woman Suffrage Association of Oklahoma and Indian Territory''.
Biggers served as the group's first president from 1904 through 1911. The name was changed to the ''Oklahoma Woman's Suffrage Association'' in 1907 and was part of the NAWSA.
In 1910 Biggers ran unsuccessfully for the post of
Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections The Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections is a now defunct elective executive (government), executive officer of the state of Oklahoma.
The office was established by the Oklahoma Constitution in 1907. The office was disestablished by ...
against the incumbent,
Kate Barnard. In 1916 Biggers helped establish the ''Neighborly
Home Demonstration Club of
Stephens County''. In 1918 she served as vice president of the ''Marlow Suffrage Club''.
After the death of her husband, Biggers returned to Waterford, Pennsylvania where she died on August 27, 1935.
See also
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List of suffragists and suffragettes
References
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1849 births
1935 deaths
Suffragists from Oklahoma
Women in Oklahoma politics
People from Waterford, Pennsylvania
People from Chickasha, Oklahoma
People from Marlow, Oklahoma
Activists from Pennsylvania
Activists from Oklahoma
20th-century Oklahoma politicians
20th-century American women politicians
National American Woman Suffrage Association activists
Candidates in the 1910 United States elections