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Founder Carrie Chapman Catt Headquarters building in Washington, DC, circa 1920s Board of Directors, 1920. The League of Women Voters was created in 1920 as the merger of two existing organizations, the long-established National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the National Council of Women Voters (NCWV).
Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins (1952–), first woman of color to serve as president of the League of Women Voters and the only one in the first hundred years of the League. [9] Florence Kelley (1859–1932), a social and political reformer active in NAWSA and instrumental in founding the League of Women Voters, the National Consumers League and the ...
She was elected board president at the League of Women Voters's 54th and 55th National Conventions, in June 2020 and June 2022. [1] She died on January 28, 2024. [2] She worked in Omaha, Nebraska, and four other locations and specialized in General surgery, gynecologic oncology and obstetrics and gynecology. Turner was also affiliated with ...
The national board of the League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to voting rights and democracy, disbanded the 70-year-old Park Ridge chapter recently despite the ...
The League of Women Voters of the Columbia Area is providing VOTE411 for more than 30 races and 94 candidates – mostly for Lexington and Richland counties.
In 1920, Gellhorn became one of the founders of the National League of Women Voters. [4] She declined Carrie Chapman Catt's invitation to become the organization's president, but served instead as vice-president, [1] [5] as a member of its board of directors, and as president of the St. Louis League for three terms. She also served as the first ...
The League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to prevent those who sent robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’ s voice to New Hampshire voters from using artificial intelligence ...
Marie Stuart Edwards, c. 1920. Marie Stuart Edwards was a suffragist and social reformer from Peru, Indiana.She served as president of the Woman's Franchise League of Indiana (1917–1919); publicity director of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) during the Nineteenth Amendment's passage in 1920; and vice president of the National League of Women Voters (1921–1923).