Marion Margery Warren Scranton (April 12, 1884 – June 23, 1960) was a 20th-century women’s suffrage activist and leading member of the Republican Party in the United States.

[1][2] Known as “the Duchess and the Grand Old Dame of the Grand Old Party,” she was described in Life magazine as “the woman Pennsylvania politicians still remember as ‘Margery,’ and ... the only woman who (in Tom Dewey’s much-quoted phrase) could wear two orchids through a coal mine and get away with it.”[3] The first female vice-chair of the Lackawanna County Republican Committee, Margery Scranton was also a member of the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee from 1922 to 1934, and served as vice-chair of the Pennsylvania Republican Party from 1926 to 1928.

Her daughters went on to attend Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, while her son, William, who was born at a cottage in Madison, Connecticut, while the family was vacationing there in 1917,[14] graduated from the Yale University School of Law before securing a position with the U.S. State Department in 1959 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

[23] Marion Margery Scranton became active in the women’s suffrage movement at the age of 16,[24][25] and continued her advocacy and lobbying efforts until the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted in 1920.

"[27] Women of Scranton became "'street orators'," who "preached women’s suffrage from the sideboards of model T Fords," and "climbed up onto stages at local movie houses to rally for the vote," or took part in marches as "flags waved, horns honked, crowds cheered."

In 1914, "the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association chose Scranton, then the third largest city in the state, as the site for its 46th annual convention."

Also appointed by Martin as Commander of Civilian War Services, she was awarded “the first service bars given in the State for activity in aiding the war effort,” according to The Scranton Tribune, which noted that “she had a staff of 14 persons to carry out her orders.”[37] In 1952, according to her son, William, “she decided she had to get out,” and completely ended her advocacy work:[38] “She had been there long enough and so she left—she never did another thing politically.

According to The Plain Speaker, at the time of the foundation's creation, she "made it clear it was named after the city, not the donors.

[41] Preceded in death by her husband in 1955, she continued to reside at Marworth, her family’s estate in Dalton, Pennsylvania, and died there from a heart ailment on June 23, 1960.