Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
Born Carrie Lane, she moved with her family to Iowa at a young age. She was an accomplished student at Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University in Ames), and served as a principal and then superintendent of Mason City, Iowa, schools before focusing her attentions on the women's suffrage movement. She assisted Susan B. Anthony in organizing the National American Women's Suffrage Association, founded in 1890, and served as president from 1900-1904 and again starting in 1915. Catt worked unfailingly to gain women the right to vote and her political abilities contributed to the success of the 19th Amendment. It was ratified in 1920.
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