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Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898.
Frances Willard, the second WCTU president, objected to this limited focus of social issues WCTU was addressing. [11] Willard believed that it was necessary for the WCTU to be political in women’s issues for the success, expansion, and implementation of WCTU. [11] In 1879, Willard successfully became president of the WCTU until her death in ...
The permanent officers of the society then organized were, Annie Turner Wittenmyer, President; Frances Willard, Corresponding Secretary; Mary Coffin Johnson, Recording Secretary; Mary Bigelow Ingham, Treasurer; with one vice-president from each of the States represented in the convention. The spirit of this assembly was shown in the closing ...
Frances Willard plaque and flower bed by the Halifax and Dartmouth Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1939), Halifax Public Gardens. In 1851 women were excluded from the vote in Nova Scotia. In 1870, Hannah Norris began to mobilize women into the public sphere through establishing the Woman’s Baptist Missionary Aid Society across the ...
The Taft family is an American political family of English descent, with origins in Massachusetts. [1] Its members have served in the states of Massachusetts, Ohio, Rhode Island, Utah, and Vermont, and the United States federal government, in various positions such as representative (two), governor of Ohio, governor of Rhode Island, senator (three), secretary of agriculture, attorney general ...
Frances E. Willard is a marble sculpture depicting the American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist of the same name by Helen Farnsworth Mears, installed in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection.
Frances Willard: 1940: American educator, reformer, lecturer, and women's suffrage supporter Jane Addams: 1940: American social worker and reformer, the founder of Hull House in Chicago, a social welfare center Clara Barton: 1948, 1995: Founder of the American Red Cross: Juliette Gordon Low: 1948: Founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA: Moina ...
Frances Willard House (Evanston, Illinois) Woman's Christian Temperance Union This page was last edited on 9 February 2024, at 19:07 (UTC). Text is available under ...