Mary Wood Swift (September 12, 1841 – April 8, 1927) was an American suffragist and clubwoman, president of the National Council of Women of the United States from 1903 to 1909.

[11][12][13] "The Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution should not be devoted to ancestor-worship and to preserving history," she told the organization in a speech in 1906, "but it should bend its energies also to making history and to creating better conditions for posterity."

In the same speech, she expressed opposition to immigration into the United States, and her support for Americanization and literacy programs.

[14] Mary Wood married American diplomat John Franklin Swift.

They lived in San Francisco but were often abroad for Swift's work, until he died in Tokyo in 1891.