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This is a list of Rhode Island suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Rhode Island.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2020)

Groups

• Bristol Equal Suffrage League.
• College Equal Suffrage League, Rhode Island group formed in 1907.
• Congressional Union of Providence, Rhode Island, created in 1916.
• Jamestown Equal Suffrage League.
• Newport County Woman Suffrage League, founded in 1908.
• Providence Woman Suffrage Party.
• Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1915.
• Rhode Island Women's Suffrage Association, created in 1868.
• Rhode Island Women's Suffrage Party, created in 1913.
• Rhode Island Union of Colored Women's Clubs, created in 1903.
• Woman's Newport League.
• Women's Political Equality League of Providence.

Suffragists

• Esther H. Abelson (Pawtucket).
• Sara Algeo.
• Agnes Bacon (Providence).
• Mary Rathbone Kelly Ballou (Providence and Portsmouth).
• Alva Belmont (Newport).
• Mae E. Profitt Bentley (Providence).
• Ellen M. Bolles.
• Rose Talliaferro Bradic (Providence).
• Emeline S. Burlingame (1836–1923).
• Margaret M. Campbell.
• Elizabeth Buffum Chace (Providence).
• Elizabeth Kittridge Churchill.
• Paulina Wright Davis (Providence).
• Ardelia C. Dewing.
• Mary H. Dickerson (Newport).
• Sarah E. Doyle.
• Maud Howe Elliot (Newport).
• Jeanette S. French.
• Hannah E. Greene (Providence).
• Annie M. Griffin.
• Frederick A. Hinckley (Providence).
• Bertha Higgins (Providence).
• Julia Ward Howe (Portsmouth).
• Mary E. Jackson (Providence).
• Maria Albertina Kindberg (Providence).
• Maria Ingeborg Kindstedt (Providence).
• Sophia Little.
• Deborah Knox Livingston.
• Clara Brownell May Miller (Newport).
• Martha H. Mowry (Providence).
• Mabel E. Orgelman (Bristol).
• Fanny Purdy Palmer (Providence)
• Annie Peck (Providence).
• Rhoda Anna Fairbanks Peckham.
• Lucy Proffitt.
• Charlotte B. Wilbour.
• Anna Garlin Spencer (Providence).
• Rowena Peck Barnes Tingley.
• Camillo von Klenze.
• Frances H. Whipple (Providence).
• Sarah Helen Whitman (Providence).
• Lillie Chace Wyman (Valley Falls).
• Elizabeth Upham Yates.

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Robert Livingston Beeckman.
• Clark Burdick (Newport).
• Edward L. Freeman.
• Joseph H. Gainer (Providence).
• Daniel L. D. Granger (Providence).
• Richard W. Jennings.
• Henry B. Kane (Narragansett).
• Walter R. Stiness.

Suffragists campaigning in Rhode Island

• Susan B. Anthony.
• Henry B. Blackwell.
• Carrie Chapman Catt.
• Adelaide A. Claifin.
• James Henry Darlington.
• Frederick Douglass.
• Mary F. Eastman.
• William Lloyd Garrison.
• Laura M. Johns.
• Mary Johnston.
• Louise Hall.
• Henry S. Nash.
• Cora Scott Pond.
• Anna Howard Shaw.
• Doris Stevens.
• Lucy Stone.
• Zerelda G. Wallace.

Places

• Marble House.
• Oak Glen.

Publications

• The Amendment.
• The Pioneer and Woman's Advocate, founded in 1852.
• The Una, founded in 1853.

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Rhode Island Association in Opposition to Woman Suffrage.

Individuals

• Mrs. Edward Johnson.
• Margaret Farnum Lippitt.
• Mary Lippitt Steedman.

See also

• New England Woman Suffrage Association
• Timeline of women's suffrage in Rhode Island
• Women's suffrage in Rhode Island
• Women's suffrage in the United States

References

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Sources

• Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (1902). The History of Woman Suffrage. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: National American Woman Suffrage Association (1912). Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (Public domain ed.). The Association.

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