Clipping : "Works Denies Suffrage Attack / Suffrage Session Ends in Peace." [1913-12-05]
Men's League for Woman Suffrage (New York, N.Y.)
National American Woman Suffrage Association. Convention
Laidlaw, J. M. (James Maxwell), 1887-
Paul, Alice, 1887-1972
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules
Upton, Harriet Taylor, 1853-1945
Women--Suffrage--Ohio
Two brief articles:
The first is an account of the House Committee on Rules session where Harriet Taylor Upton, president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, appeared to refute anti-suffragist remarks.
The second mentions a heated discussion around a report made by Alice Paul at the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention.
[1913-12-05]
English
House of Representatives report : Harriet Tubman. 1874
Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Claims
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, Female
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women
Series: 43rd Congress, 1st Session, Report no. 787
Submitted by Mr. Gerry W. Hazelton from the Committee on War-Claims made to accompany Bill H.R. 3786. The bill would appropriate $2,000 to Harriet Tubman for services to the Union Army as a scout, spy and nurse. The bill was defeated.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on War Claims
Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office
1874-06-22
1 p.
English
ALMS.1874.02
Washington, D.C.
House of Representatives Report : Woman Suffrage: arguments before the Committee on the Judiciary. February 3, 1880
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Blake, Lillie Devereux, 1833-1913
Constitutional amendments
Convention
Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 1826-1898
McRae, Emma Montgomery
Stebbins, Catherine
Saxon, Elizabeth Lyle, 1832-1915
Waite, Jessie
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
House of Representatives, 46th Congress, 2d Session Mis. Doc.
Caption title:
This report includes testimony given on January 24, 1880 by delegates to the Woman Suffrage Convention being held in Washington, D.C.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Washington, Government Printing Office
1880-02-03
22 p.
English
DOCU.1880.01
House of Representatives report : Woman Suffrage. December 15, 1916
Constitutional amendments
States' rights (American politics)
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Series: House of Representatives, 64th Congress, 2d Session, Report 1216, Parts 1 and 2.
The first, submitted by the Committee on the Judiciary on December 15, 1916, contains no recommendation on the woman suffrage amendment.
The second, submitted on January 10, 1917, contains the "Views of the Minority" urging passage of the woman suffrage amendment.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Washington, D.C. : G.P.O.
1916-1917
9 p.
English
DOCU.1916.13
Letter : A.R. Brodbeck to Mrs. A.A. Holden. [1917]
Brodbeck, Andrew, 1860-1937
Holden, Mrs. Amasa A.
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National Woman's Party
Picketing
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Woman Suffrage
Women--Suffrage--Pennsylvania
Letter from Andrew Brodbeck, Congressman from Pennsylvania, to Mrs. A.A. Holden regarding the woman suffrage amendment and the National Woman's Party pickets of the White House.
In 1917, the National Woman's Party, founded by Alice Paul, targeted the President and Congress by staging protests at the gates of the White House every day to garner nationwide attention on the suffrage movement and fight for a federal suffrage amendment. The nonviolent protests ultimately led to attacks, arrest, imprisonment and force-feeding of the women. The National American Woman Suffrage Association and its affiliates were vocal in condemning the pickets and demonstrating ongoing support of the government and President Wilson.
1917
1 p.
English
DOCU.1917.26
Letter : Ralph O. Brewster, Men's Equal Suffrage League, to Mr. E.N. Merrill, Skowhegan, Maine. March 26, 1917
Brewster, Owen, 1888-1961
Johnson, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1930
Maine. Legislature. House of Representatives
Men's Equal Suffrage League of Maine
Merrill, Edward Newton
Milliken, Carl E. (Carl Elias), 1877-1961
Pattangall, William R. (William Robinson), 1865-1942
Referendum
Whitehouse, Robert Treat, 1870-
Women--Suffrage--Maine
Invitation from Ralph Brewster to Edward Newton Merrill, State Senator from Maine and a member of the League's executive committee, to attend a meeting of the Men's Equal Suffrage League in the Maine House of Representatives to organize for the upcoming suffrage referendum campaign. The meeting was open to the public.
In 1917, the Maine Suffrage Amendment was defeated by a vote of 40,000 to 20,000. In 1919, Maine became the third New England state to ratify the federal amendment and when a referendum vote was held, Maine women won the right to vote in presidential elections.
Brewster, Owen, 1888-1961
1917-03-26
1 p.
English
DOCU.1917.13
Maine
Note : Edith Nourse Rogers to E. Mildred Brennan. [Circa 1926-1936]
Brennan, E. Mildred
Rogers, Edith Nourse, 1881-1960
United States. Congress. House of Representatives
Women--Political activity--United States
Women politicians
Handwritten note from Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers to E. Mildred Brennan that may have been altered for a scrapbook. On the back is a newspaper clipping of a photograph of Edith Nourse Rogers.
Edith Nourse Rogers ran for her husband's congressional seat after his death in 1925 and she won the special election. She was re-elected eighteen times, and served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Civil Service Committee. In 1947, she became the ranking Republican member of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and served as chair until 1949. Rogers sponsored and helped to draft the 1944 G.I. Bill of Rights, which gave returning World War II veterans the chance to go to college, obtain job training, and receive low-interest loans to purchase homes.
Rogers, Edith Nourse, 1881-1960
[Circa 1926-1936]
2 p. front and back
English
DOCU.1000.20
Taxpaying Suffrage : Letter from Charles R. Saunders, Esq., Four Years a Member, and Three Years House Chairman, of the Committee on Election Laws. January 26, 1903
Anti-suffrage
Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women
Saunders, Charles R.
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
Public letter issued by the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women featuring Saunders' argument against House Bill, No. 119, to grant municipal suffrage to taxpaying women in Massachusetts. He sites reasons why the taxation without representation argument made by the suffragists is without merit.
Saunders, Charles R. Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. Committee of Elections
Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women
1903-01-26
2 p.
English
DOCU.1903.04
Massachusetts