Ida Sammis Woodruff Satchwell (née Bunce) (October 8, 1865 – June 3, 1943) was a prominent early female Republican party suffragist and politician from Suffolk County, New York.

[2][3] Ida Sammis was born to Eliphalet and Margaret (Rogers) Bunce on October 8, 1865 in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York.

[citation needed] In 1911, Sammis organized the first women's suffrage club in Suffolk County.

[citation needed] According to contemporary news accounts, including in The New York World, Sammis' first act as a legislator was to remove the brass spittoon assigned to her, polish it to a brilliant shine, and place it on her desk as a vase filled with flowers.

[2][3] Her second husband was Alden J. Woodruff, a retired doctor from Babylon NY whom she married in January 1923.