Carrie Chapman Catt
Sign in to saveAlso known as Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, Carrie Lane, Carrie Clinton Lane, Carrie Chapman, Carrie Lane Chapman, Carrie Catt
American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)
Key facts
- Born
- Carrie Clinton Lane , ( 1859-01-09 ) January 9, 1859, Ripon, Wisconsin , U.S.
- Died
- March 9, 1947 (1947-03-09) (aged 88), New Rochelle, New York , U.S.
- Resting place
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- Education
- Iowa State University (1880)
- Spouses
- Leo Chapman, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. February 1885</span>"}]]}'>1885 ; died August 1886</span>"}]]}'>1886 ) George Catt, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1890 ; died 1905 )
- Partner
- Mary “Mollie” Garret Hay
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ripon
- Place of death
- New Rochelle
- Occupation
- suffragist
- Educated at
- Iowa State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Carrie Chapman Catt.jpg
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- place of burial
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- Commons category
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- date of birth
- 1859-01-09
- date of death
- 1947-03-09
- name in native language
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- nominated for
- Nobel Peace Prize
- archives at
- New York Public Library Main Branch
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Carrie Clinton Lane
- has works in the collection
- Smithsonian Institution
- depicted by
- National Portrait Gallery
- collection items at
- Smithsonian Institution
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Encyclopedic overview
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt's girlhood home with Suffrage Trail Marker visible in Charles City, Iowa. Photo uploaded with permission of the National Nineteenth Amendment Society. Carrie Chapman Catt (born Carrie Clinton Lane; January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920. She founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904, which was later named International Alliance of Women. She "led an army of voteless women in 1919 to pressure Congress to pass the constitutional amendment giving them the right to vote and convinced state legislatures to ratify it in 1920". She "was one of the best-known women in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century and was on all lists of famous American women."
Early life
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