Elizabeth Thacher Kent

Congressman William Kent, she helped create the Muir Woods National Monument by donating land to the government.

She was a first cousin and close friend of Elizabeth Selden Rogers, chair of the Advisory Council of the National Woman's Party and its Legislative Chairperson for the State of New York.

She was a featured speaker at the 1913 and 1914 conventions of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and then became the leader of their Congressional Committee.

She helped form the Congressional Union (later renamed the Women’s Party), which picketed the White House in support of suffrage.

[7][8] In the 1930s she became involved with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and in 1937 became president of the Marin County chapter.