Catt was a leader in the more conservative faction of the women's suffrage movement in its later years, preferring to work through lobbying efforts and, before the first World War, for state-by-state laws enabling women to vote rather than a federal suffrage amendment.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Picture of Carrie Chapman Catt, Woman Suffrage Leader, March 28, 1914
Carrie Chapman Catt was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) from 1900 to 1904 and from 1915 until it dissolved.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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