This is a list of Nevada suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Nevada.

Groups

* Churchill County Equal Suffrage League. *Douglas County Equal Suffrage League. *Esmerelda County Equal Suffrage League. *Eureka County Equal Suffrage League. *Humboldt County Equal Suffrage League. *Lucy Stone Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage League, formed in

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in 1894. * The Men's League of Nevada, created in 1914. *Nevada Equal Franchise Society (NEFS). *Nevada Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1895. *

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. *Non-Militant Suffrage Association, formed in 1911. *Ormsby County Equal Suffrage League. *Sparks Equal Suffrage League. *State Equal Suffrage Association. *Storey County Equal Suffrage League. *Washoe County Equal Suffrage League. * Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

Suffragists

* Mary Babcock. * Hellen Ann Lovelock Bonnifield ( Winnemucca). *

Mae Caine Mae Caine (March 15, 1872 – August 24, 1955) was a 20th-century American suffragist and women's rights activist, civic leader, and government official in Nevada. President of the Suffrage Society in Elko County, Nevada, Elko County, she was also ...

* Hanna K. Clapp. *

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Eliza Cook Eliza Cook (24 December 181823 September 1889) was an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, some ...

( Douglas County). * Mary Stoddard Doten. * Bessie R. Lucas Eichelberger ( Reno and Washoe County). * Minnie Flannigan. * Maud Gassoway. * John I. Ginn ( Elko). * Laura DeForce Gordon ( Virginia City). * Florence Humphrey (Washoe). * Sadie D. Hurst (Washoe). * Alexandrine La Tourette. * Sarah Emeline Mack (Reno). *

Anne Henrietta Martin Anne Henrietta Martin (September 30, 1875 – April 15, 1951) (pseudonym, Anne O'Hara; nickname, Little Governor Anne) was a suffragist, pacifist, and author from the state of Nevada. Her main achievement was taking charge of the state legislatio ...

(Reno). *

Mila Tupper Maynard Mila Tupper Maynard (née Mila Frances Tupper; January 26, 1864 – November 12, 1926) was an American Unitarian minister, writer, social reformer and suffragist. She is thought to have been the first female minister in Nevada. Early years Bor ...

(Reno). * Helena Suzanne Bidwell Norton (Reno). * Elda Ann Williams Simpson Orr (Reno). * Delphine Squires ( Las Vegas). * Fannie Weller (Austin). * Frances Slaven Williamson (Austin and Reno). * Bird Wilson ( Goldfield). *

Jeanne Wier Jeanne Elizabeth Wier (April 8, 1870 – April 1950) was a teacher, historian, and founder of the Nevada Historical Society. Early life Jeanne Wier was born in Grinnell, Iowa on April 8, 1870 to parents Adolphus William Wier and Elizabeth Greensi ...

Politicians who supported women's suffrage

* McKaskia Stearns Bonnifield ( Humboldt County). * Oscar Grey. * Curtis J. Hillyer (

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Publications

* ''The Nevada Citizen'', published by Frances Slaven Williamson and Mary Laura Williamson.

Suffragists who campaigned in Nevada

* Jane Addams. * Susan B. Anthony. * Bessie Beatty. * Harriot Stanton Blatch. * Lucy Burns. *

Laura Gregg Cannon Laura Gregg Cannon (September 1869 – December 21, 1945) was an American lecturer and organizer in the women's suffrage movement. Over the course of almost three decades, she led or supported suffrage activities in fifteen different states. She w ...

. * Carrie Chapman Catt. *

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. * Grace Cotterill. * Minnie Fisher Cunningham. *

Emma Smith DeVoe Emma Smith DeVoe (August 22, 1848 – September 3, 1927) was an American women suffragist in the early twentieth century, changing the face of politics for both women and men alike. When she died, the Tacoma News Tribune called her Washington s ...

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Sara Bard Field Sara Bard Field (September 1, 1882 – June 15, 1974) was an American poet, suffragist, free love advocate, Georgist, and Christian socialist. She worked on successful campaigns for women's suffrage in Oregon and Nevada. Working with Alice Paul ...

. * Margaret A. Foley. * Antoinette Funk. * Charlotte Perkins Gilman. *

Florence Bayard Hilles Florence Bayard Hilles (1865–1954) was an American suffragist, one of the founders of the National Woman's Party. Biography Hilles was born in 1865, the daughter of Thomas Francis Bayard. She was a munitions worker in World War I, and assist ...

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Rosalie Jones Rosalie Gardiner Jones (February 24, 1883 – January 12, 1978) was an American suffragette. She took the "Pankhursts" as role models and after hearing of the " Brown Women" she organised marches to draw attention to the suffrage cause. She was ...

. * Caroline Katzenstein. * Annie Kenney. * Harriet Burton Laidlaw. *

James Lees Laidlaw James Lees Laidlaw (December 19, 1868 – May 9, 1932) was a banker, civic worker, and philanthropist. He supported the League of Nations and women's suffrage movement. He was president of the New York State Men's League for Women's Suffrage, whi ...

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Gail Laughlin Abbie "Gail" Hill Laughlin (May 7, 1868 – March 13, 1952) was an American lawyer, suffragist, an expert for the United States Industrial commission, and a member of the Maine State Senate. She was the first woman from Maine to practice law. She ...

. * Maud Leonard McCreery. *

Alice Park Alice Elizabeth Locke Park (; February 2, 1861 – October 17, 1961) was an American suffragist and a longtime defender of women's rights. She served as associate director of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California. Early life ...

. * Valeria H. Parker. *

Ella Riegel Ella Riegel (1867 - January 20, 1937) was an American suffragist and women's rights activist. Riegel was a graduate of the first class of Bryn Mawr College and would remain associated with the college the rest of her life. Biography Regel was bo ...

. * Mary E. Ringrose. *

Elizabeth Selden Rogers Elizabeth Selden White Rogers (July 23, 1868 – December 18, 1950) was a civic reformer working to improve the New York public schools, and to win suffrage for women in the state of New York and the nation. Early life and education She wa ...

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Marjorie Shuler Marjorie Shuler (November 10, 1888 – 1977) was an American publicist and author for the woman suffragists from New York. She wrote for the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) major publication, ''The Woman Citizen'' and was the ...

. * Anna Howard Shaw. *

Mary Sperry Mary Elizabeth Simpson Sperry was a leading California suffragist who served as president of the California Woman Suffrage Association. Suffrage work Mary Sperry was one of the leading suffragists in the state of California and was personally ...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca ...

. * Emily A. Pitts Stevens. *Eleanor Stewart. *

Helen Todd Helen MacGrgeor Todd (April 1, 1870 – August 15, 1953) was an American Women's suffrage, suffragist and Labor rights, worker's rights activist. Todd started her career as an educator and later became a factory inspector. She wrote about Child la ...

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Charlotte Anita Whitney Charlotte Anita Whitney (July 7, 1867 – February 4, 1955), best known as "Anita Whitney", was an American women's rights activist, political activist, suffragist, and early Communist Labor Party of America and Communist Party USA organizer in ...

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Maud Younger Maud Younger (January 10, 1870 – June 25, 1936) was an American suffragist, feminist, and labor activist. Early life Maud Younger was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of a Scottish immigrant, dentist William John Younger. Her m ...

Anti-suffragists

People *Emma Adams. *Anna Fitch. * George Wingfield. Groups * Nevada Association of Women Opposed to Equal Suffrage (NAWOWS). Anti-suffragists who campaigned in Nevada *

Minnie Bronson Minnie Bronson (September 12, 1863, New York - October 28, 1927 Cattaraugus County, New York) was an American anti-suffragist activist who was general secretary of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Biography Minnie Bronson ...

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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 ...

Suffragists from Nevada