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This is a list of New Jersey suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in New Jersey.

Groups

  • NEW JERSEY WOMAN SUFFRAGE GROUP. LEAVING HEADQUARTERS FOR WHITE HOUSE LCCN2016865053
    Suffragists leaving for the White House in 1913
    New Jersey chapter of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage is formed in 1915.
  • Equal Franchise Society of New Jersey, organized in 1910.
  • Equal Justice League, formed in Bayonne in 1911.
  • Equal Suffrage League of the Amboys.
  • Essex County Suffrage Society.
  • Hudson County Woman Suffrage Party.
  • Montclair Equal Suffrage League.
  • National Woman's Party (NWP) of New Jersey.
  • New Brunswick Equal Suffrage League.
  • New Jersey Men's League for Equal Suffrage, formed in 1910.
  • New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (NJSFCWC).
  • New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA), formed in 1867.
  • Orange Political Study Club (OPSC), created in 1898.
  • Progressive Woman Suffrage Society.
  • Rutherford Equal Suffrage League.
  • Sewaren Equal Suffrage League.
  • Vineland Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1866.
  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
  • Woman's Political Union of New Jersey.

Suffragists

Mrs. Van Winkle and Suffrage torch LCCN2014699598
Mina Van Winkle and the Suffrage Torch

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

  • William Miller Baird.
  • Robert Carey (Jersey City).
  • Thomas Chattle.
  • Everett Colby.
  • Walter Evans Edge.
  • Charles M. Egan (Jersey City).
  • John Franklin Fort.
  • William C. Gebhardt (Hunterdon County).
  • Charles O'Connor Hennessy (Bergen County).
  • Henry Lafetra (Monmouth).
  • Victor Mavalag (Elizabeth).
  • Walter I. McCoy.
  • William Lawrence Saunders (Plainfield).
  • Judge John Whitehead.
  • Alexander Wilder (Newark).
  • Grant Griesman (Bowdoin ‘24)
  • Alan Casey (from Madrid)

Suffragists campaigning in New Jersey

Anti-suffragists

Groups

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

People

  • Anna Dayton (Trenton).
  • Georgiana Breese.
  • Frances Cleveland (Princeton).
  • Harriet Clark Fisher (Trenton).
  • Mrs. O. D. Oliphant (Trenton).
  • John A. Matthews (Newark).
  • William Francis Magie (Princeton).
  • Blanche O. Roebling (Trenton).

Anti-suffragists campaigning in New Jersey

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

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