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Lillian Ford Feickert (July 20, 1877 - January 21, 1945), was President of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (1912-1920) and later helped organize the New Jersey League of Women Voters. A notable suffragist and political leader, she went on to serve as vice-chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee and unsuccessfully ran for a Senate seat in 1928.

Early life
Feickert was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Emeline Margaretta and Herbert Lord Ford. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was a homemaker. She had three siblings, two boys and one girl, and was of English, Irish and Scottish descent.

After marrying Edward Foster Feickert, a banker, in 1902 the couple moved to Plainfield, New Jersey where Edward became an assistant secretary at Plainfield Trust Company. For the next eight years or so, the couple lived a typical suburban life with Lillian tending to the home and garden. After working his way up the ladder, Edward took the vice-presidency of the State Trust Company in 1910, resulting in the couple moving to North Plainfield, New Jersey.

Women's rights
Upon arriving in North Plainfield, Lillian began showing signs of her leadership skills and passion for women's rights. She first led mission study classes for Grace Episcopal Church of Plainfield and eventually began joining women's organizations, including the Daughters of the American Revolution, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association.

In 1910, Clara Laddey, NJWSA President at the time, appointed Lillian the enrollment chairman, a position she held for two years. She had a tremendous impact on membership during this time and was consequently elected President of the association in 1912. Over the next eight years, she sharpened her political skills, as well as her leadership ability, and increased membership to over 120,000 members. Feickert was considered the leader of the New Jersey suffrage movement and represented them in attempts to gain the right to vote. After failing to have a state suffrage amendment approved in 1915, she worked harder than ever before and was selected to lead several organizations in their attempt to have the federal suffrage amendment ratified. The state legislature officially ratified the amendment on February 10, 1920.

The state Republican Party recognized her achievements and named her vice-chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee in 1920. With this position, Feickert was assigned the job of organizing the Republican women in New Jersey. At the same time, she was also appointed treasurer of the New Jersey League of Women Voters, a position she left approximately a year later due to a difference of opinion regarding the direction the organization was headed. With more time on her hands, Lillian began focusing her attention on the New Jersey Women's Republican Club, of which she was President. Financial backing from the Republican organization allowed membership to reach up to 100,000 members.

In March of 1923, the Night Work Bill was passed due to the efforts of Feickert and other Republican women. The bill ensured that women would not work between the hours of 10:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M. in manufacturing, laundries, and bakeries.

As a firm supporter of Prohibition and insistent women's rights activist, the Republican party cut off funding to the NJWRC and failed to re-elect Feickert as vice-chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee in 1925. The New Jersey Women's Republican Club slowly began to fall apart and was eventually replaced by the Women's State Republican Club of New Jersey in 1929.

Lillian unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1928 as a pro-Prohibition candidate.

Later years
Upon her failed attempt at Senate and the defeat of Prohibition, Feickert stepped away from politics. Having divorced her husband in 1925, her remaining years were spent working on her home, reading, and traveling. She died of a Cerebral hemorrhage at Saint Vincent's Hospital in New York City on January 21, 1945.