List of American suffragists

This is a list of suffragists and suffrage activists working in the United States and its territories. This list includes suffragists who worked across state lines or nationally. See individual state or territory lists for other American suffragists not listed here.

Susan B. Anthony (center) with Laura Clay, Anna Howard Shaw, Alice Stone Blackwell, Annie Kennedy Bidwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida Husted Harper, and Rachel Foster Avery in 1896.

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett at a 1913 suffrage parade.
 
Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Garrett Hay casting their votes in 1918
 
Margaret Foley in a balloon, distributing women's suffrage literature in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1910.
 
Rosalie Jones speaking in Union Square, 1900.
  • John Neal (1793–1876) – writer, critic, first American women's rights lecturer.[95]
  • Mary A. Nolan (died 1925) – one of the oldest suffragists active on NWP picket lines.[96]

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