Carrie Chapman Catt

Carrie Chapman Catt ( born January 9, 1859 as Carrie Clinton Lane in Ripon, Wisconsin / USA, † March 9, 1947 in New Rochelle, New York) was a campaigner for women's suffrage in America. It participated in campaigns for the nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed the right to vote from 1920 adult U.S. citizens. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and founded the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women ( IAW).

Life

Catt was born Carrie Clinton Lane in Ripon in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. She spent her childhood in Charles City, Iowa and completed within three years of the Iowa State College (later Iowa State University) in Ames. Catt was the valedictorian of her class and the only woman. She began teaching in 1885 and appointed superintendent of schools in Mason City.

In the same year Catt married the journalist Leo Chapman, but died soon thereafter in California. She came back on their feet, have not done without some harrowing experiences in the male world of work. 1890, she married George Catt, a well-off engineer. By this marriage she was able, a large part of the year to travel and work for women's suffrage, a work with which she had begun in Iowa during the 1880s. With her ​​friend, the feminist Rosa Manus, she traveled 1922/1923 to South America. Catt also joined the Women's Christian Temperance nor Union.

Catt was their fellow campaigner Susan B. Anthony very close to their desired successor as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association ( NAWSA ) she was. She was twice elected president of the NAWSA; first from 1900 to 1904 and then by 1915 to 1920. My second term coincided with the peak of the former women's rights movement, as 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was annexed. The NAWSA was the largest women's rights organization of its time. Starting with the first efforts in the years in Iowa Catt organized dozens of campaigns, mobilized numerous volunteers ( up to one million by the end ) and held hundreds of speeches. After the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, Catt retired from NAWSA of.

In 1920, Catt, the League of Women Voters as the successor organization of NAWSA. In the same year she presented himself from the Commonwealth country party as presidential candidate.

1928 Catt settled in New Rochelle. She was active in the 1920s and 1930s in the peace movement and was often referred to as a leading figure of her era. She died in 1947 in New Rochelle and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx in New York City.