Catt

Carrie Lane Chapman Catt

By taylorrae

  • Born in Charles City, Iowa

  • superintendent of schools in Mason City, Iowa

  • married newspaper editor Leo Chapman

  • married wealthy engineer, George Catt

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    Iowa Women's Suffrage Organization recording secretary and state organizer

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    first term as elected president of NAWSA 1900 to 1904

  • organized the International Woman Suffrage Alliance

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    second term as elected president of NAWSA from 1915 to 1920

  • unveiled “Winning Plan”

  • founded the League of Women Voters

  • The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

  • awarded the first honorary degree from the University of Wyoming

  • collaborated with Nettie Rogers Shuler to publish Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement

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    founded The National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War

  • awarded American Hebrew Medal

  • awarded National Institute of Social Sciences Gold Medal

  • died at age 88 in New Rochelle, New York

  • inducted into Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame

  • inducted into National Women’s Hall of Fame

  • awarded the Iowa Award