List of Florida suffragists

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

Groups

• Florida Equal Franchise League, formed 1912.^[1]
• Florida Woman Suffrage Association, formed in January 1893.^[2]
• Men's Suffrage League of Orlando, created March 1914.^[3]
• Milton Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1914.^[4]
• National Woman's Party.^[5]
• Orlando Suffrage League, formed 1913.^[6]
• Pensacola Equal Suffrage League, created in 1914.^[7]
• Political Equality Club, created in February 1913.^[8]

Suffragists

 

Edith Owen Stoner, May 1914

• Frances Anderson (Jacksonville).^[9]
• Blanche Armwood (Tampa).^[10]
• Elizabeth Askew (Tampa).^[11]
• Jessie M. Bartlett (St. Petersburg).^[12][13]
• Mary McLeod Bethune (Daytona Beach).^[14]
• Caroline Mays Brevard (Brevard County).^[1]
• Mary Elizabeth Bryan (Miami).^[15]
• Ella C. Chamberlain (Tampa).^[6]
• Roselle Cooley (Jacksonville).^[9]
• Hannah Detwiller.^[16]
• Marjory Stoneman Douglas (Miami).^[17]
• Zena Dreier (Fellsmere).^[18]
• Katherine Livingstone Eagan (Jacksonville).^[19]
• Nellie Glenn (Melrose).^[12][13]
• Emma Hainer (Orlando).^[8]
• May Mann Jennings.^[20]
• Mary Belle Jewett (Winter Haven).^[21][22]
• Minnie Kehoe.^[23]
• Mary A. Nolan (Jacksonville).^[6]
• Julia Norris (Tampa).^[6]
• Edith Owen Stoner (Jacksonville).^[24]
• Mary A. Safford (Orlando).^[1]
• John Schnarr (Orlando).^[25]
• Helen Starbuck (Orlando).^[8]
• Ivy Stranahan (Fort Lauderdale).^[26]
• Emma Tebbitts (Crescent City).^[12][13]
• Helen Hunt West (Jacksonville).^[20][27]
• Lillian C. West (Bay County).^[28]
• Eartha M. M. White (Jacksonville).^[20]

Politicians who supported women's suffrage

• James L. Giles (Orlando).^[3]
• E. F. Sperry (Orlando).^[3]

Suffragists who campaigned in Florida

• Susan B. Anthony.^[25]
• Lucy Burns.^[29]
• Anne Dallas Dudley.^[30]
• Lavinia Engle.^[31]
• Jean Gordon.^[32]
• Kate M. Gordon.^[33]
• Louisine Havemeyer.^[29]
• Pattie R. Jacobs.^[30]
• Florence Kelley.^[32]
• Maria McMahon.^[34]
• Alice Paul.^[16]
• Jeanette Rankin.^[35]
• Anna Howard Shaw.^[36]
• Sue White.^[29]

Anti-suffragists in Florida

• Frank Clark (Gainesville).^[37]

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in Florida
• Women's suffrage in Florida
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

References

1. "Women's Equality Day". Florida Memory. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
2. "Ella Chamberlain". Lower Keys League of Women Voters. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
3. Andrews, Mark (8 September 1996). "LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LED THE WAY IN WOMEN'S MARCH FOR SUFFRAGE". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
4. LWV 1995, p. 9.
5. "Florida and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
6. "Suffragists in Florida". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
7. LWV 1995, p. 7,9.
8. Taylor 1957, p. 45-46.
9. Johnson 1970, p. 299.
10. Hewitt, Nancy. "Biographical Sketch of Blanche Armwood". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
11. Cole, Nancy. "Biographical Sketch of Elizabeth Askew". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
12. Anthony 1902, p. 577.
13. Taylor 1957, p. 44.
14. Jones, Ida E. "Mary McLeod Bethune, True Democracy, and the Fight for Universal Suffrage". Florida Memory. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
15. Van Howe 1991, p. 34.
16. Taylor 1957, p. 53.
17. "Marjory Stoneman Douglas". Florida Memory. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
18. Pallone, Greg (5 March 2020). "Women's History Month: Tiny Florida Town Pioneered Women's Suffrage". Spectrum News 13. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
19. Harper 1922, p. 113.
20. "Suffrage in Florida". Museum of Florida History. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
21. Taylor 1957, p. 49.
22. Burton, LaFrancine K. (29 November 2003). "White Philanthropists Pushed Education, Improvement for Polk Blacks". The Ledger. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
23. LWV 1995, p. 22.
24. O'Neill, Brittany. "Biographical Sketch of Edith May Owen Stoner". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
25. Andrews, Mark (1 September 1996). "CENTRAL FLORIDA PLAYED A BIG PART IN THE STATE'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT". OrlandoSentinel.com. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
26. Harakas, Margo (14 March 1999). "Advancing Equality". Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
27. Campana, Kayla. "Biographical Sketch of Helen Hunt West". Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920 – via Alexander Street.
28. Redd, Kenny (19 June 2020). "Suffrage: Long road for Florida women". Panama City News Herald. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
29. Taylor 1957, p. 54.
30. Taylor 1957, p. 50.
31. LWV 1995, p. 7.
32. Taylor 1957, p. 48.
33. Harper 1922, p. 115.
34. Harper 1922, p. 117.
35. Van Howe 1991, p. 38.
36. LWV 1995, p. 11.
37. Johnson 1970, p. 300.

Sources

• Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Johnson, Kenneth R. (January 1970). "The Woman Suffrage Movement in Florida". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 48 (3): 299–312. JSTOR 30161501 – via JSTOR.
• LWV (1995). "When Women Vote: A Study of the Pensacola Suffragist Movement and the Founding of the League of Women Voters of the Pensacola Bay Area and Its History" (PDF). The League of Women Voters of the Pensacola Bay Area.
• Taylor, A. Elizabeth (July 1957). "The Woman Suffrage Movement in Florida". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 36 (1): 42–60. JSTOR 30138972 – via JSTOR.
• Van Howe, Annette (1991). "The Women's Suffrage Movement In Broward County and Florida". Broward Legacy. 14 (3): 37–42.