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Women in Religion: Suffragists
This page highlights women who were involved in the fight for woman suffrage, who had a strong religious motivation or affiliation. Many were also involved in other reform movements, such as abolition, temperance, and social reform. Many were also involved in the fight for women's ordination, access to seminary education, or other inter-connected women's rights issues.

While biographies of suffragists have received attention recently, most need additional information on the religious background, motivations and activities of notable women suffragists.

Anti-suffrage sentiment was also sometimes motivated by religious belief, so a few notable names are included below as well.

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American Suffragists (small selection - many others exist):

 * Marietta Bones, temperance and suffrage activist, secretary of national WCTU, VP of NWSA
 * Antionette Brown Blackwell, first Congregationalist minister, suffragist
 * Olympia Brown, First UU female minister, suffragist
 * Celia Burleigh - Unitarian minister, suffragist, first woman minister in Connecticut
 * Mamie Dillard, suffragist from Kansas, member of African American WCTU
 * Effie McCollum Jones, unitarian minister and suffragist in Kansas
 * Abby Kelley, Quaker abolitionist and suffragist
 * Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, suffragist, Baptist pastor and educator
 * Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, abolitionist, suffragist, organized black women's club
 * Mary Ann Shadd Cary, abolitionist, suffragist, publisher, educator, lawyer (founded schools funded by the AMA)
 * Anna Howard Shaw, Methodist minister, suffragist, president of NWSA


 * Sojourner Truth, abolitionist, suffragist
 * Women's Christian Temperance Union

Suffragists from other countries:

 * Edith Archibald, Canadian suffragist, president of Maritime WCTU
 * Elizabeth Brentnall, Australian suffragist, temperance activist and philanthropist
 * Isabella Carrie, Scottish secret suffragette, Church of Scotland trained teacher
 * Dorothea Chalmers Smith, Scottish suffragette, divorced by her husband, a church minister, and separated from her sons
 * Helen Crawfurd, Scottish suffragette, rent striker, socialist and Communist politician, in earlier life Sunday School teacher and had converted to Catholicism
 * Mary Colton, Australian suffragist, president of YWCA
 * Margaret Elizabeth Cousins, Irish-Indian suffragist, theosopist
 * Louise Eates, British suffragette, women's education activist, later taught citizenship classes at Young Women's Christian Association
 * Concepción Felix, Filipina social reform activist and suffragist, awarded the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by Pope Pius XII
 * Hermila Galindo, Mexican suffragist, outspoken critic of Catholicism
 * Isabella Goldstein, an Australian suffragist and social reformer, one of the organisers of the Women's Suffrage Petition ("Monster petition") to the Victorian state parliament and the mother of Vida Goldstein.
 * Vida Goldstein, Australian suffragist, Christian Science practitioner
 * Mary Pollock Grant, Scottish suffragette, Church of Scotland missionary (in education in India),later Christian Science practitioner
 * Alice Stewart Ker, British physician and suffragette, brought up in Free Church of Scotland
 * Serena Lake, Australian suffragist and evangelical preacher
 * Margaret Bright Lucas, British temperance and suffrage activist
 * Hattie Mahood, British Baptist deacon, temperance and suffrage activist
 * Ethel Moorhead, British suffragette, brought up in a mixed religion home: Irish Catholic and Protestant Huguenot
 * Agnes McLaren, Scottish doctor and social activist, converted to Catholicism, petitioned the Pope for women's medical rights in India
 * Priscilla Bright McLaren, British suffragette and Quaker
 * Anna Munro, British suffragette, formerly with the Wesleyan Methodist Sisters of the People
 * Sarojini Naidu, Indian suffragist, worked with Ghandi, first women to hold office as Governor in India
 * Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian Christian, pastor's wife, women's rights activist and suffrage leader
 * Jessie Rooke, Australian suffragist, and temperance leader, president of WCTU
 * Huda Sha'arawi, Egyptian feminist, and nationalist, noted for removing her veil in defiance of tradition
 * Rachel Scott (women's education reformer), British feminist, brought up in Church of Scotland home
 * Margaret Skinnider, Scottish feminist, involved in Easter Rising & Irish War of Independence, later teacher in Dublin Catholic school
 * Georgiana Solomon, Scottish feminist and suffragette, Jewish liberal, became school headteacher in South Africa
 * Daisy Solomon, British suffragette, Jewish liberal and feminist reformer
 * Catherine Helen Spence, Scottish-born Australian feminist, suffragist and Unitarian preacher
 * Barbara Steel, Scottish social activist, brought up in United Presbyterian home, later suffrage activist in South Africa
 * Jessie Stephen, British suffragette and labour activist, attended church and socialist Sunday Schools
 * Táhirih, Iranian suffragist and women's rights advocate, theologian of the Babi faith, "first suffrage martyr", venerated by Bahais and Azalis
 * Maria Veleda, Portuguese suffragist, spiritualist, founder of Spiritualist Group Light and Love (Grupo Espiritualista Luz e Amor)
 * Anne Ward, temperance advocate, suffragist from New Zealand
 * Jane Wigham, Scottish abolitionist, suffragist, Quaker
 * Henria Leech Williams, Scottish suffragette, brought up in Primitive Methodist home
 * Jennie Fowler Willing, Canadian suffragist, preacher, and editor for National Women's Christian Temperance Union

Anti-Suffrage Notable Women

 * Annie Nathan Meyer - founder of Bernard College
 * Maria Rye - English reformer