Annalee Stewart

Annalee Stewart (February 17, 1900 – November 1988) was one of the first ordained female ministers of the U.S. Methodist Church and was the first woman to be a guest chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives.

In 1924, she became involved with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), serving in various capacities until the 1960s.

[1] Stewart became Director of Religious Education at the Centre Methodist Church of Malden, Massachusetts between 1937 and 1943.

[11] In 1947, she was one of the WILPF delegates to the Primer Congreso Interamericano de Mujeres held in Guatemala City.

[12] In the decade after the end of World War II, she made five trips to Europe, traveled to Palestine, traveled throughout the United States,[13] as well as fact finding missions like the 1965 clergy visit to Vietnam[10] and trips to India, Israel, Japan, Poland, and the USSR.