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Fannie Humphreys Gaffney (1858-1945) was an American suffragist, activist, and President of the National Council of Women of the United States.

Life
She was a graduate of the Women's Law College.

She married Thomas St. John Gaffney.

Gaffney was elected President of the National Council of Women in 1899. At the time, she was the youngest woman to have held the office. Her profile in the Congress handbook noted that she was also "President of the Society for Political Study, Member of the Society of Authors, the Professional Woman's League, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union". She was also a life member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

She later became the Council's Honorary President.

Quoted in Views on Religion as saying "I believe there is a growing tendency among mankind towards a lack of faith in any religious system" and that "Our churches are mostly Med with women as they always have been."