Mary Macaulay

Mary Macaulay (January 27, 1865 – July 19, 1944) was a telegraph operator and labor union official who became International Vice President of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America (CTUA) in 1919.

She was the first woman telegrapher to hold a national elective office in a union.

This was the beginning of a long career as a press telegrapher; she subsequently operated for the Rochester Post Express in Rochester, New York, the Consolidated wire at the Buffalo Evening News in Buffalo, New York, and for the United Press Association in the offices of the Lockport Union Sun in Lockport, New York.

[1] Macaulay was an early supporter of the women's suffrage movement; during her employment in Rochester, she also served as secretary to Susan B.

[3] In 1927, she retired from her work as press telegrapher for the Lockport Union Sun and returned to LeRoy, New York.