Maria Maud Leonard McCreery (February 24, 1883 – April 10, 1938) was an American suffragist, pacifist, labor activist, educator, and newspaper editor from Wisconsin.
[2] Maud McCreery was an active suffragist, touring the United States speaking on the topic from 1912 to 1918.
[11][12][13] "Women who are now protesting against the ballot are of the same type who years ago fought against the education of their sex," she told an audience in Olyphant, Pennsylvania, in 1913, adding that "The only real way to find out whether women want the ballot is to give it to them.
[17] She organized women's auxiliaries for the American Federation of Labor in 1937, and taught at the School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin.
[1][2] Maud Leonard married lawyer Rex Irving McCreery in 1902; the marriage ended in divorce in 1918.