Carrie Belle Kearney (March 6, 1863 – February 27, 1939) was an American temperance reformer, suffragist, teacher, white supremacist, and the first woman elected to the Mississippi State Senate.

Her father, Walter Guston Kearney, was a slave-owning planter who suffered significant financial losses after the Civil War.

[3] Belle Kearney attended Canton Young Ladies' Academy, but was forced to leave due to the cost of tuition.

[3] Kearney authored two novels: A Slaveholder's Daughter (1900), and Conqueror or Conquered: Or, the Sex Challenge Answered (1921).

She spent her last years on the family plantation in Flora, and died of cancer in 1939 at the home of a friend in Jackson.