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Leaders
http://www.distinctivewomenhawaii.org/program_2011.php
 * Harriet Angeline Castle Coleman, Mrs. Castle-Coleman
 * Miss Mary Ermine Cross and others.
 * Mary Tenney Castle [1819-1907]
 * Mary Elizabeth Parker [1805-1897]

Timeline
Hawaii Territorial Commissioners made suffrage solely male, and did not grant Legislature right to choose who can vote, with a clause that it "should not grant to ... any individual any special privilege or franchise without the approval of Congress." Dole and Frear wanted legislative power to authorize woman suffrage but the rest of the commission would not permit it......Susan B. Anthony made vigorous objection to this abuse of power, sent a protest to every member of Congress and followed this with petitions officially signed by large associations but to no avail. The Act was approved by President William McKinley April 30, 1900.


 * After the women of Washington, California and Oregon were enfranchised in 1910-11-12


 * 1912, when they called on Mrs. John W. Dorsett to help them organize a suffrage club.
 * October 1912 - Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, gave a speech and help the club get started. Hawaiian legislative candidates pledge to support women suffrage.
 * 1915-1916: Kuhio tried to get power for Hawaiian legislator to grant suffrage to women. But was ignored by Congress.


 * Early 1917: Mrs. Pitman visits Hawaii. Lead suffragist meeting of middle class and upper class Hawaiian women (mostly of the missionary set). She address Hawaii Legislature who adopted resolution for women suffrage. On the mainland, Mrs. Catt sent Mrs. Pitman's letter to Mrs. Maud Wood Park, chairman of the Congressional Committee of the National Suffrage Association and she took up the question with Senator John F. Shafroth, chairman of the Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico.


 * May 21, 1917 - Kuhio presented still another resolution from the Territorial Legislature asking for it and on June 1 Senator Shafroth introduced the following bill: "Be it enacted . . . that the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii be, and it is hereby, vested with the power to provide that in all elections . . . female citizens possessing the same qualifications as male citizens shall be entitled to vote." Passed by the Senate without objection or even discussion on September 15. In the House it was referred to the Committee on Woman Suffrage, which set April 29, 1918, for a hearing.
 * In the House it was referred to the Committee on Woman Suffrage, which set April 29, 1918, for a hearing. Delegate Kalanianaole had been called back to Honolulu by business but was represented by his secretary and there were present Mrs. Park, who presided, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary president of the National Suffrage Association, and Mrs. Pitman, the principal speaker. Judge John E. Raker was chairman of the committee, which did not need any argument but was interested in asking many questions of Mrs. Pitman. At the close of the hearing the committee voted unanimously to make a favorable report. The bill was passed June 3 without a roll call. It was signed by President Wilson on the 13th.
 * Petitions from local women organizations came into the Hawaiian Legislature for vote without referendum. Recommended by Governor McCarthy
 * Session of 1919: Hawaii Senate sent bill to House who "refused to endorse it but substituted a bill to send the question to the voters. The Senate would not accept it and both bills were deadlocked."
 * Women to action especially "native high class women and what is known as the "missionary set,"
 * Mrs. Dorsett made a tour of all the Islands to arouse interest and on Maui, under the leadership of Mrs. Harry Baldwin, clubs were formed all over the island.
 * Hawaiian Suffrage Association was organized. At the next convention of the National Association a resolution was adopted that it be invited to become auxiliary without the payment of dues and the invitation was officially accepted with thanks.
 * The Federal Suffrage Amendment proclaimed by Secretary of State Colby Aug. 26, 1920, included the women of the Territories and it was thus that Hawaiian women became enfranchised. They voted in large numbers at the November elections that year.