Edna Fischel Gellhorn (1878 – 1970) was an American suffragist and reformer who helped found the League of Women Voters.
Gellhorn was an officer in both the St. Louis and Missouri State Equal Suffrage Leagues from 1910 until the Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1919.
[1] In 1916, she participated in a women's rights protest dubbed "The Golden Lane" at the Democratic Party's national convention, held that year in St. Louis.
[7] A black-cloth-draped tableau of "states with no votes for women" was placed in front of the St. Louis Art Museum.
[6] In 1923, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote of Edna Gellhorn that she "is known as one of the foremost leaders of the movement in this country.
[9] In 1968, Washington University in St. Louis created the Edna Fischel Gellhorn Professorship of Public Affairs.