Women's suffrage in North Dakota

The arrival of Sylvia Pankhurst in February 1912 stimulated the creation of more groups, including the statewide Votes for Women League.

[1][3] The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) held a convention in Minneapolis in October 1885 where many Dakota suffragists attended.

[1] Also that year, the franchise department of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), made up of Helen M. Barker, Alice M. Alt Pickler, and S. V. Wilson presented petitions for full women's suffrage to the territorial legislature.

[4] As the constitutional convention for North Dakota met in Bismarck in July, 1889, Henry Browne Blackwell traveled to support women's suffrage in the new state.

[6] Blackwell could not stay through the entire convention and Cora Smith Eaton, secretary of the Grand Forks Suffrage Club, continued his efforts.

[6] Eaton was provided a room on the same floor as the Convention Hall and she and other activists lobbied delegates who had not made a decision on women's suffrage.

[7] Elizabeth Preston Anderson became president of the Dakota WCTU in 1893 and believed that in order to work towards prohibition laws, women needed the right to vote.

[11] In July 1901, the Equal Suffrage Association of North Dakota held its annual convention in Devil's Lake.

On February 4, 1912, suffragists were invited to meet Sylvia Pankhurst at the home of Mary Darrow Weible in Fargo.

[20] In January 1917, Senator Oscar Lindstrom introduced a presidential and municipal suffrage bill drafted by Robert M. Pollock in the state legislature.

[22] Suffragists in North Dakota also joined the National Woman's Party (NWP) demonstrations in front of the White House.

"[26] After June 1919, Alice Paul asked Governor Lynn Frazier to hold a special legislative session to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.

[28] Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (Métis Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians) was a Native American suffragist from North Dakota.

[31] The Personal Liberty League of the German American Alliance opposed women's suffrage in North Dakota.

[20] In 1914, the North Dakota Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage was founded in Fargo with Ida Clark Young leading the group.