Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman
Catt was born January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin. She spent most of her childhood in Charles
City, Iowa and graduated from Iowa State College. Catt graduated in three years, was a
valedictorian of her class, and the only women in her class. She later became the superintendent of
schools in Mason City in 1885.
Carrie Catt was American Women's Suffrage
leader who campaigned for women's right to vote. In 1919 Catt led a group of women into
Congress to fight for their 19th amendment.
Congress later passed the amendment in 1920, Catt became known as the
best known women of the first half of the twentieth century.
Catt later went on to make hundreds
of speeches, supervise dozens of campaigns, and connect with one million
volunteers by the time she retired in 1920.
She was also part of an anti-war cause from 1920s- 1930s. In 1933 Catt organized a protest committee of
non Jewish women to protest Hitlers persecution of the Jewish people in
Germany. She later died in 1947 at the
age of 88 in New Rochelle, New York.
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