Carrie Chapman Catt, a former teacher and the only female graduate of Iowa Agricultural College, rose from state suffrage leader in Iowa to president of NAWSA, serving two nonconsecutive terms. She never gave up on Wilson, protecting him through years of criticisms from Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party. The Anthony Amendment finally passed Congress during her second turn at the wheel. In 1920, she transformed NAWSA into the League of Women Voters.
Source photograph: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection.
Date: c. 1915 (1909–20)
Carrie Chapman Catt, a former teacher and the only female graduate of Iowa Agricultural College, rose from state suffrage leader in Iowa to president of NAWSA, serving two nonconsecutive terms. She never gave up on Wilson, protecting him through years of criticisms from Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party. The Anthony Amendment finally passed Congress during her second turn at the wheel. In 1920, she transformed NAWSA into the League of Women Voters.
Source photograph: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection.
Date: c. 1915 (1909–20)