Carrie Chapman Catt

Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was a 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 and was the founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women.

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    There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
    —Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947)

    There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
    —Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947)