List of Montana suffragists

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2024)

Groups

Equal Suffrage Party, formed in 1897.^[1]
Helena Business Women's Suffrage Club.^[2]
Helena Equal Suffrage Club.^[3]
Missoula Teachers' Suffrage Committee.^[4]
Montana Equal Suffrage Association (MESA), created in 1912.^[5]
Montana Men's Equal Suffrage League.^[5]
Montana Woman's Suffrage Association (MWSA), formed in 1895.^[6]
Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).^[7]

Suffragists

Group of Butte Suffragists in 1914. Left to right: Alice Schwegel, Mary Murphy and Katherine Sullivan

Lillian Agnew (Great Falls).^[8]
Mary Long Alderson.^[8]
Mary B. Atwater.^[9]
Ida Auerbach.^[10]
Edith Clinch.^[11]
Helen P. Clarke.^[8]
Eva Warren Collier (Bedford).^[12]
Ota E. Cummings (Billings).^[13]
Maria M. Dean (Helena).^[14]
Ella Knowles Haskell (Helena).^[15]
Maggie Smith Hathaway (Ravalli County).^[16]
Hazel Hunkins (Billings).^[16]
Emma Ingalls (Flathead County).^[16]
Grace Rankin Kinney.^[10]
Mary Alderson Long.^[7]
Clara McAdow (Fergus County).^[17]
Mary E. O'Neill (Butte).^[13]
Martha Edgerton Rolfe Plassmann (Great Falls).^[8]
Jeannette Rankin (Missoula County).^[16]
Wellington D. Rankin.^[18]
Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa.^[19]
Harriet P. Sanders.^[6]
Sarepta Sanders (Helena).^[6]
Mittie L. Shoup (Missoula).^[20]
Gertrude Sylvester.^[8]
Jessie Thompson (Bozeman).^[13]
Clara B. Tower.^[21]
Josephine Trigg (Great Falls).^[8]
Elizabeth Donohue Vaughn (Great Falls).^[8]
Mary C. Wheeler (Helena).^[10]
Belle Fligelman Winestine (Helena).^[22]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

Publications

The Suffrage Daily News, published in 1914 in Helena.^[5]
Woman's Voice, published on suffrage in 1913.^[24]

Suffragists campaigning in Montana

Anti-suffragists

Groups

Montana Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, formed in summer of 1914.^[32]
Travel Club of Great Falls.^[33]

Politicians opposing women's suffrage

Allen Joy.^[14]
Martin Maginnis.^[14]
George L. Ramsey (Gallatin County).^[34]
Joseph K. Toole.^[35]

See also

References

^ Ward 1974, p. 68.
^ Ward 1974, p. 72.
^ Ward 1974, p. 76.
^ ^a ^b Baumler et al. 2014, p. 5.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "The Suffrage Daily News (Helena, Mont.) 1914-191?". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
^ ^a ^b ^c Larson 1973, p. 31.
^ ^a ^b Baumler et al. 2014, p. 6.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Inbody, Kristen (6 November 2018). "Voted? Thank a Montana Suffragist". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved 24 March 2021 – via Newspapers.com."Suffragists". Great Falls Tribune. 6 November 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b Anthony 1902, p. 798.
^ ^a ^b ^c Harper 1922, p. 362.
^ Ward 1974, p. 144.
^ Ward 1974, p. 28.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Suffragists in Montana". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Anthony 1902, p. 797.
^ Larson 1973, p. 33.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kohl, Martha (2019-08-02). "Montana History Revealed: Montana and the Nineteenth Amendment". Montana History Revealed. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
^ ^a ^b ^c Baumler et al. 2014, p. 4.
^ Harper 1922, p. 363.
^ Hitchcock, Calyn. "Biographical Sketch of Margaret Jane Steele Rozsa," in Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States: "Part III: Mainstream Suffragists—National American Woman Suffrage Association." Ann Arbor, Michigan: Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company, retrieved online May 9, 2021.
^ "The Missoula Teachers' Suffrage". Yellowstone Monitor. 1914-08-13. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-10-05 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Harper 1922, p. 360.
^ Winestine 1974, p. 71.
^ Winestine 1974, p. 72.
^ Ward 1974, p. 126.
^ ^a ^b ^c Ward 1974, p. 122.
^ ^a ^b Ward 1974, p. 75.
^ Larson 1973, p. 30.
^ ^a ^b Larson 1973, p. 34.
^ ^a ^b Harper 1922, p. 364.
^ Winestine 1974, p. 73.
^ Larson 1973, p. 26.
^ Ward 1974, p. 142.
^ "Against Women's Suffrage". Great Falls Tribune. 1907-05-03. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-10-06 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Ward 1974, p. 56.
^ Inbody, Kristen (8 November 2014). "Women's suffrage: Montana backers targeted their message to each group they spoke with". Great Falls Tribune. Retrieved 2020-10-05.

Sources

Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
Baumler, Ellen; Ferguson, Laura K.; Foley, Jodie; Hanshew, Annie; Jabour, Anya; Kohl, Martha; Walter, Marcella Sherfy (Summer 2014). "Women's History Matters: The Montana Historical Society's Suffrage Centennial Project". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 64 (2): 3–20, 91–92. JSTOR 24419894 – via JSTOR.
Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
Larson, T. A. (Winter 1973). "Montana Women and the Battle for the Ballot". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 23 (1): 24–41. JSTOR 4517748 – via JSTOR.
Ward, Doris Buck (1974). The Winning of Woman Suffrage in Montana (PDF) (Master of Arts in History thesis). Montana State University.
Winestine, Belle Fligelman (Summer 1974). "Mother Was Shocked". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 24 (3): 70–79. JSTOR 4517906 – via JSTOR.