List of Woman's Christian Temperance Union people

This is a list of people associated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.).

Presidents
The presidents of the WCTU and their terms of office are:


 * 1) 1874-79 - Annie Turner Wittenmyer
 * 2) 1879-98 - Frances Willard
 * 3) 1898-14 - Lillian M. N. Stevens
 * 4) 1914-25 - Anna Adams Gordon
 * 5) 1925-33 - Ella A. Boole
 * 6) 1933-44 - Ida B. Wise
 * 7) 1944-53 - Mamie White Colvin
 * 8) 1953-59 - Agnes Dubbs Hays
 * 9) 1959-74 - Ruth Tibbets Tooze
 * 10) 1974-80 - Edith Kirkendall Stanley
 * 11) 1980-88 - Martha Greer Edgar
 * 12) 1988-96 - Rachel Bubar Kelly
 * 13) 1996-2006 - Sarah Frances Ward
 * 14) 2006-14 - Rita Kaye Wert
 * 15) 2014-19 - Sarah Frances Ward
 * 16) 2019 - Current - Merry Lee Powell

Editors of The Union Signal
Editors of the WCTU's organ, The Union Signal and its former namesakes, The Woman's Temperance Union, and Our Union have included:
 * Mary Bannister Willard (January 1883 - July 1885)
 * Mary Allen West (July 1885 - 1892)
 * Harriet B. Kells (1891-1894)
 * Frances Willard (1892 - February 1898)
 * Lillian M. N. Stevens (February 1898 - April 1914)
 * Anna Adams Gordon (April 1914 - October 1926)
 * Ella Boole (October 1926 - October 1933)
 * Ida B. Wise Smith (October 1933 - )

A

 * Sarah C. Acheson (1844 - 1899)
 * Jessie Ackermann (1857 - 1951)
 * Lucia H. Faxon Additon (1847 - 1919)
 * Mary Osburn Adkinson (1843 - 1918)
 * Mary Jane Aldrich (1833 – 1909)
 * Eunice Gibbs Allyn (1847 – 1916)
 * Edith Archibald (1854 – 1936)
 * Ida A. T. Arms (1856 – 1931)
 * Lily Atkinson (1866 – 1921)

B

 * Clara Babcock (1850-1925)
 * Blanche Pentecost Bagley (1858-1928)
 * Lepha Eliza Bailey (1845-1924)
 * Mrs. L. Dow Balliett (1847-1929)
 * Helen Morton Barker (1834-1910)
 * Frances Julia Barnes (1846-1920)
 * Susan Hammond Barney (1834-1922)
 * Emma Curtiss Bascom (1828-1916)
 * Josephine Cushman Bateham (1829-1901)
 * Emma Pow Bauder (1848-1932)
 * Marion Babcock Baxter (1850-1910)
 * Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860-1923)
 * Emma Lee Benedict (1857-1937)
 * Anna Smeed Benjamin (1834-1924)
 * Mary Crowell Van Benschoten (1840-1921)
 * Martia L. Davis Berry (1844-1894)
 * Belle G. Bigelow (1851-1925)
 * Lettie S. Bigelow (1849-1906)
 * Suessa Baldridge Blaine (1860-1932)
 * Ellen A. Dayton Blair (1837-1926)
 * Emily Rose Bleby (1849-1917)
 * Astrid Blume (1872-1924)
 * Mary Shuttleworth Boden (1840-1922)
 * Lizzie Borden (1860-1927)
 * Caroline G. Boughton (1854-1905)
 * Emma Bourne (1846-1924)
 * Emma E. Bower (1852-1937)
 * Euphemia Bridges Bowes (1816-1900)
 * Ada Chastina Bowles (1836-1928)
 * Leah Belle Kepner Boyce (1881-1960)
 * Kate Parker Scott Boyd (1836-1922)
 * Marie C. Brehm (1859-1926)
 * Libbie Beach Brown (1858-1924)
 * Caroline Brown Buell (1843-1927)
 * Helen Louise Bullock (1836-1927)
 * Annie Babbitt Bulyea (1863-1934)
 * Adda Burch (1869-1929)
 * Nelle G. Burger (1869-1957)
 * Emeline S. Burlingame (1836-1923)
 * Cynthia S. Burnett (1840-1932)
 * Woodnut S. Burr (1861-1952)
 * Mary Towne Burt (1842-1898)
 * Mary Ryerson Butin (1857–1944)
 * Lucy Wood Butler (1820-1895)
 * Alice Sudduth Byerly (1855-1904)

C

 * Alice A. W. Cadwallader
 * Emor L. Calkins
 * Matilda Carse
 * Annie Carvosso
 * Jennie Casseday
 * Rebecca Ballard Chambers
 * Nettie Sanford Chapin
 * Sallie F. Chapin
 * Rose Woodallen Chapman
 * Fanny DuBois Chase
 * Louise L. Chase
 * Annetta R. Chipp
 * Mamie Claflin
 * Annie W. Clark
 * Clara Amelia Rankin Coblentz
 * Cordelia Throop Cole
 * Julia Colman
 * Emily M. J. Cooley
 * Mary Ann Mann Cornelius
 * Sara Jane Crafts
 * Mary Helen Peck Crane
 * Ella D. Crawford
 * Belle Caldwell Culbertson
 * Mary S. Cummins
 * Mary Ann Cunningham
 * Nannie Webb Curtis

D

 * Frances Brackett Damon
 * Mary R. Denman
 * Lella A. Dillard
 * Hannah P. Dodge
 * Mary L. Doe
 * Sara J. Dorr
 * Eva Craig Graves Doughty
 * Alice May Douglas
 * Lavantia Densmore Douglass
 * Cornelia M. Dow
 * Sarah Jane Corson Downs
 * Marion Howard Dunham
 * Harriet Ball Dunlap
 * Julia Knowlton Dyer

E

 * Ida Horton East
 * Mary G. Charlton Edholm
 * Margaret Dye Ellis
 * Mrs. A. Elmore
 * Lelia Dromgold Emig
 * Addie Garwood Estes (1868-1928)
 * Sarah Lindsay Evans
 * Nellie Blessing Eyster

F

 * Mary J. Farnham
 * Susan Frances Nelson Ferree
 * Susan Fessenden
 * Judith Ellen Foster
 * Jessie Forsyth
 * Bertha Fowler
 * Susanna M. D. Fry
 * Eliza Nelson Fryer (1847-1910)
 * Minnie Rutherford Fuller

G

 * Jane Gemmill
 * Harriet E. Garrison
 * Ella M. George
 * Ruby I. Gilbert
 * T. Adelaide Goodno
 * Amelia Elizabeth Roe Gordon
 * Anna Adams Gordon
 * Elizabeth Putnam Gordon
 * Frances W. Graham
 * Charlotte A. Gray
 * Eva Kinney Griffith
 * Hattie Tyng Griswold
 * Sophronia Farrington Naylor Grubb

H

 * Anna M. Hammer
 * Margaret Keenan Harrais
 * Antoinette Arnold Hawley
 * Utako Hayashi
 * Rebecca Naylor Hazard
 * S. M. I. Henry
 * Maria Hyde Hibbard
 * Eliza Trask Hill
 * Mary G. Hill
 * Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin
 * Clara Cleghorn Hoffman
 * Sarah Haines Smith Hoge
 * Lillian Hollister
 * Jennie Florella Holmes
 * Mary Emma Holmes
 * Annabel Morris Holvey
 * Esther Housh
 * Emeline Harriet Howe
 * Laura E. Howey
 * Adrianna Hungerford
 * Augusta Merrill Hunt
 * Mary Hunt

I

 * Mary Bigelow Ingham
 * Eliza Buckley Ingalls
 * Mary E. Ireland
 * Stella B. Irvine
 * Hannah M. Underhill Isaac

J

 * Katharine Johnson Jackson
 * Mary T. Jeffries
 * Frances C. Jenkins
 * Therese A. Jenkins
 * Georgia May Jobson
 * Kristine Martine Johannessen
 * Laura M. Johns
 * Carrie Ashton Johnson
 * Mary Coffin Johnson

K

 * Ella Eaton Kellogg
 * Agnes Kemp
 * Jennie Murray Kemp
 * Ella B. Kendrick
 * Regina Khayatt
 * M. Evelyn Killen
 * Deborah G. King
 * Eunice D. Kinney
 * Narcissa Edith White Kinney
 * Janette Hill Knox
 * Katherine Kurt

L

 * Imogen LaChance
 * Sarah Doan La Fetra
 * Anna Matilda Larrabee
 * Mary Torrans Lathrap
 * Maria Elise Turner Lauder
 * Louisa Lawson
 * Louise M. Lawson
 * Olive Moorman Leader
 * Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt
 * Willie Kirkpatrick Lindsay
 * Lilah Denton Lindsey
 * Deborah Knox Livingston
 * Mary Frances Lovell
 * Margaret Bright Lucas

M

 * Mary L. Mallett
 * Eugenia St. John Mann
 * Nellie V. Mark
 * Abbie K. Mason
 * Lena B. Mathes
 * Asa Matsuoka
 * Harriet Calista Clark McCabe
 * Mary A. McCurdy
 * Elizabeth McCracken
 * Olive Dickerson McHugh
 * Alice Cary McKinney
 * Margaret McLean
 * Georgie A. Hulse McLeod
 * Esther Lord McNeill
 * Luella F. McWhirter
 * Jeanette DuBois Meech
 * Caroline Elizabeth Merrick
 * Elizabeth Smith Middleton
 * Lillian M. Mitchner
 * Henrietta G. Moore
 * Cornelia Moore Chillson Moots
 * Mary L. Moreland
 * Amy Kellogg Morse
 * Margaret Cairns Munns

N

 * Carrie Nation
 * Minnie E. Neal
 * A. Viola Neblett
 * Angelia Thurston Newman
 * Josephine R. Nichols
 * Della Whitney Norton

O

 * Martha B. O'Donnell
 * Marie Augusta Oldham
 * Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir

P

 * Hannah Borden Palmer
 * Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins
 * Alice E. Heckler Peters
 * Belle L. Pettigrew
 * Levancia Holcomb Plumb
 * Anna Weed Prosser
 * Esther Pugh
 * Louise C. Purington
 * Jennie Phelps Purvis

Q

 * Althea G. Quimby (1858-1942)
 * H. Anna Quinby (1871-1931)

R

 * Emily Lee Sherwood Ragan
 * Rachel Beasley Ray
 * Mary Bynon Reese
 * Anna Rankin Riggs
 * Mary A. Ripley
 * Laura Jacinta Rittenhouse
 * Amber E. Robinson
 * Ellen Sergeant Rude
 * Elizabeth Augusta Russell
 * Elizabeth Lownes Rust

S

 * Susanna M. Salter
 * Mary McKay Scott
 * Semane Setlhoko Khama
 * Kate Sheppard
 * Jane E. Sibley
 * Jennie Hart Sibley
 * Katherine Call Simonds
 * Henrietta Skelton
 * Elizabeth J. Smith
 * Eva Munson Smith
 * Mary Bell Smith
 * Olive White Smith
 * Georgiana Solomon
 * Dorcas James Spencer (1841–1933)
 * Ruth Hinshaw Spray
 * Amelia Minerva Starkweather
 * Susan J. Swift Steele
 * Emily Pitts Stevens
 * Lillian M. N. Stevens
 * Katharine Lente Stevenson
 * Eliza Daniel Stewart
 * Jane Agnes Stewart
 * Mary Ingram Stille
 * Missouri H. Stokes
 * Maria Straub
 * Flora E. Strout
 * Beaumelle Sturtevant-Peet (1840-1921)
 * Margaret Ashmore Sudduth
 * Frances L. Swift (1837-1916), church and temperance leader
 * Lucy Robbins Messer Switzer

T

 * Hannah E. Taylor
 * Eva Griffith Thompson
 * Mandana Coleman Thorp
 * Lydia H. Tilton
 * Frances E. Townsley
 * Anna Augusta Truitt
 * Alice Bellvadore Sams Turner

W

 * Phoebe Jane Babcock Wait
 * Anne Ward
 * Elizabeth Jane Ward
 * Lala Fay Watts
 * Mary Allen West
 * M. Ella Whipple
 * Reah Whitehead
 * Sophronia Wilson Wagoner
 * Mary A. Hitchcock Wakelin
 * Adelaide Cilley Waldron
 * Mary Evalin Warren
 * Lucy Hall Washington
 * Laura Moore Westbrook
 * Agnes Weston
 * Mary Sparkes Wheeler
 * Dora V. Wheelock
 * Laura Rosamond White
 * Hannah Tyler Wilcox
 * Margaret Ray Wickens
 * Jennie Fowler Willing
 * Drusilla Wilson
 * Ella B. Ensor Wilson
 * Zara A. Wilson
 * Ida B. Wise
 * Mary A. Brayton Woodbridge
 * Caroline M. Clark Woodward
 * Mary Chawner Woody

Y

 * Lenna Lowe Yost