Carrie Chapman Catt Pictures

Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the American Woman Suffrage Association which became the League of Women Voters, is here shown leaving the White House in the company of fellow suffragist Helen Hamilton Gardner (1853 - 1925). Helen Gardener was born Alice Chenoweth; she was on the Congressional Committee of the National Woman Suffrage Association, and was a NAWSA vice president who was chief liaison to the presidential administration of Woodrow Wilson. The picture may have been take about 1917. In 1920, Mrs. Gardener (married twice) was appointed to the United States Civil Service Commission, the highest position in the government held by a woman to that date.

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• Carrie Chapman Catt Picture: About 1913
• Carrie Chapman Catt Picture: About 1911
• Carrie Chapman Catt and Helen Hamilton Gardener at the White House
• Officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1917
• Carrie Chapman Catt With Flags of 22 Nations
• League of Women Voters: First National Board, 1920
• Carrie Chapman Catt Celebrating

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