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=Catherine Waugh McCulloch=


 * Catherine Waugh was born in New York state to Susan Gouger and Abraham Miller Waugh. She was of French and Irish ancestory. She graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1882, where wrote a thesis on women’s wages and earned both a B.A. and M.A. degree.
 * Graduated from Chicago's Union College of Law in 1886. She faced discrimination when seeking employment in Chicago after law school.Began her own practice in her hometown of Rockford, Illinois
 * In 1890, Catherine Waugh married her former law school classmate, Frank Hawthorn McCulloch. They moved to Chicago and merged practices to form the law firm of McCulloch and McCulloch. Catherine Waugh McCulloch sought equality in her relationship as both a private and political arrangement. According to letters she sent to colleagues, she believed her marriage to McCulloch helped advance her career.
 * Raised four kids: Hugh Waugh (1891); Hathorn Waugh (1899), Catherine Waugh (1901) and Frank Waugh (1905).
 * Ran for state's attorney in 1888 on the Prohibition party ticket.
 * In 1891, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld a law granting women the right to vote in school district elections. As legislative chair of IESA, McCulloch lobbied for a bill "that would list all of the offices for which the state legislature could grant suffrage" from 1893 to 1913.
 * Catherine Waugh McCulloch was a member of the Equity Club, a correspondence network founded in 1887 to provide support, friendship, and advice among women lawyers across the country.
 * Advocated for Equal Guardian Act, passed by Illinois in 1901
 * Co-founded Chicago Political Equity League (out of the CWC); between that and legislative superintendent of the IESA; led municipal suffrage efforts in the summer of 1906
 * First woman Justice of the Peace in Illinois (Evanston, 1907)
 * A lot of writing, interviewing, testimony, etc.; even a play and books; also train (1909) and automobile (1910) tours/rallies/speeches in support of suffrage legislation. Vice President (1910-1911) and legal advisor (1904-1911) to NWSA. Public lobbying to gain popular support; a tradition of clubwomen, settlement house workers, and other Progressive Era activists who worked to gain suffrage as a way to advance other reform efforts; in contrast to more radical than more conservative suffragists like Grace Wilbur Trout & company who viewed vote as "an end in itself"; less feminist or reformer; less of a threat; quieter persistent lobbying
 * 1917-1925, master in chancery of the Cook County Superior Court; President of Women's Bar Association from 1916 - 1920; After national suffrange, Chair of Committee on Uniform Laws Concerning women in LEague of Women Voters from 1920-1923; Died of cancer in 1945 at the age of 82
 * Missing sources on --raising age of consent; meeting and being friends with Addams; track record on race
 * Missing sources on --raising age of consent; meeting and being friends with Addams; track record on race