List of New Jersey suffragists facts for kids

This article is about the amazing people and groups in New Jersey who worked hard to get women the right to vote. This important movement is called women's suffrage, and the people who supported it were called suffragists. They believed that women should have the same right to vote as men.

Groups for Women's Right to Vote

Many groups formed in New Jersey to support women's suffrage. These organizations helped spread the word and organize events to push for change.

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  Suffragists leaving for the White House in 1913
  The New Jersey chapter of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage was created in 1915.
• The Equal Franchise Society of New Jersey was started in 1910.
• The Equal Justice League was formed in Bayonne in 1911.
• The Equal Suffrage League of the Amboys.
• The Essex County Suffrage Society.
• The Hudson County Woman Suffrage Party.
• The Montclair Equal Suffrage League.
• The National Woman's Party (NWP) of New Jersey.
• The New Brunswick Equal Suffrage League.
• The New Jersey Men's League for Equal Suffrage was formed in 1910. This group showed that men also supported women's right to vote.
• The New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (NJSFCWC).
• The New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA) was formed very early, in 1867.
• The Orange Political Study Club (OPSC) was created in 1898.
• The Progressive Woman Suffrage Society.
• The Rutherford Equal Suffrage League.
• The Sewaren Equal Suffrage League.
• The Vineland Equal Suffrage Association was formed in 1866.
• The Woman's Christian Temperance Union also supported suffrage, linking it to other social causes.
• The Woman's Political Union of New Jersey.

Important New Jersey Suffragists

Mina Van Winkle and the Suffrage Torch

Many brave people in New Jersey fought for women's right to vote. They organized, spoke out, and worked tirelessly for equal rights. Here are some of them:

• Minnie Abbott (from Atlantic City).
• Minnie Adams (from Sewaren).
• Caroline B. Alexander (from Hoboken).
• Antoinette Brown Blackwell (from Elizabeth).
• Emma L. Blackwell.
• Henry Browne Blackwell (from Orange).
• Cornelia Foster Bradford.
• Augusta Cooper Bristol (from Vineland).
• Charlotte Emerson Brown.
• Ida E. Duckett Brown.
• Katharine H. Browning (from West Orange).
• Mary E. Cary Burrell (from Essex County).
• Harriet Carpenter (from Newark).
• Flora Gapen Charters.
• Edith H. Colby (from West Orange).
• Mary Kendall Loring Colvin (from East Orange).
• Henrietta Green Crawford (from Vineland).
• Agnes M. Cromwell (from Mendham).
• Seymour L. Cromwell.
• May Chase Cummings (from Middlesex County).
• Fanny B. Downs (from Orange).
• Sarah Corson Downs.
• Mary Dubrow (from Passaic).
• Thomas Edison (from West Orange) was a famous inventor who also supported women's suffrage.
• Charlotte N. Enslin (from Orange).
• Bertha L. Fearey (from East Orange).
• Lillian Feickert.
• Florence F. Foster.
• Susan Pecker Fowler (from Vineland).
• Cecilia Gaines (from Jersey City).
• Emma O. Gantz (from East Orange).
• Angelina Grimké.
• Sarah Moore Grimké.
• Florence Howe Hall.
• Phebe Hanaford (from Jersey City).
• Alma Arabella Parker Harvey (from Deal).
• Carrie H. Henry (from Jersey City).
• Alison Turnbull Hopkins (from Morristown).
• Julia Hurlbut (from Morristown).
• Cornelia C. Hussey (from East Orange).
• Mary D. Hussey (from East Orange).
• Anna B. Jeffery.
• Elizabeth A. Kingsbury (from Vineland).
• Beatrice Kinkead (from Montclair).
• Martha Klatscken (from East Orange).
• Clara Schlee Laddey.
• Harriet Lafetra (from Monmouth).
• Alice Lakey (from Cranford).
• Amelia Berndt Moorfield (from Newark).
• Mary Pattison (from Colonia).
• Alice Paul (from Mt. Laurel) was a very important leader in the national suffrage movement.
• Mary Philbrook (from Newark).
• Aaron Macy Powell.
• Anita Stillman Quarles (from Hoboken).
• Florence Spearing Randolph.
• Ella M. Rice (from Middlesex County).
• Linton Satterthwaite (from Trenton).
• Melinda Scott (from Newark).
• Phoebe Scott (from Morristown).
• Agnes Anne Schermerhorn (from East Orange).
• Therese Walling Seabrook (from Keyport).
• Sarah E. Selover (from South River).
• Minola Graham Sexton (from Orange).
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (from Tenafly) was a national leader in the women's rights movement.
• Lucy Stone (from Orange) was another key national figure who lived in New Jersey.
• Rhea Vickers.
• Mina Van Winkle.

New Jersey suffragists, around 1919 or 1920

Suffragists Who Campaigned in New Jersey

Many suffragists from other states also visited New Jersey to help the cause. They gave speeches and organized events to encourage people to support women's right to vote.

• Alice Stone Blackwell.
• Lillie Devereux Blake.
• Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg.
• Harriot Stanton Blatch.
• Carrie Chapman Catt was a very important national leader of the suffrage movement.
• Mariana Wright Chapman.
• Liska Stillman Churchill.
• Annie Le Porte Diggs.
• Rheta Childe Dorr.
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
• Kate M. Gordon.
• Mary Garrett Hay.
• Clara Cleghorn Hoffman.
• Julia Ward Howe.
• Fola La Follette.
• Mary Livermore.
• Sophia Loebinger.
• Ellis Meredith.
• George Middleton.
• Florence Miller.
• Emmeline Pankhurst was a famous leader of the suffrage movement in England.
• Emily Pierson.
• Minnie Reynolds.
• Helen Ring Robinson.
• Anna Howard Shaw was a doctor and a powerful speaker for suffrage.
• Mary Church Terrell was an important African American activist and suffragist.
• Mabel Vernon.
• Fanny Garrison Villard.
• Elizabeth Upham Yates.

People Who Opposed Women's Suffrage

Not everyone supported women getting the right to vote. Some groups and individuals believed that women should not participate in politics. These people were called anti-suffragists.

Anti-Suffrage Groups

• The Men's Anti-Suffrage League of New Jersey.
• The New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NJAOWS) was formed in 1912.

Anti-Suffrage Individuals

• Anna Dayton (from Trenton).
• Georgiana Breese.
• Frances Cleveland (from Princeton) was the former First Lady of the United States.
• Harriet Clark Fisher (from Trenton).
• Mrs. O. D. Oliphant (from Trenton).
• John A. Matthews (from Newark).
• William Francis Magie (from Princeton).
• Blanche O. Roebling (from Trenton).

Anti-Suffragists Who Campaigned in New Jersey

• Minnie Bronson.
• Josephine Jewell Dodge.
• Alice N. George.

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in New Jersey
• Women's suffrage in New Jersey
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States