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Jenny Beth Martin
Jenny Beth Martin


Jenny Beth Martin is the co-founder and national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots and a columnist for The Washington Times. She is also the co-author of "Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution." Martin was born on July 2, 1970, in Georgia. She attended Reindhardt College before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Georgia. In February 2009, Martin organized a Tea Party protest in Atlanta after hearing CNBC commentator Rick Santelli challenging Chicago to make a 1773, Boston-style response to the health care plan. […]
Lucy McBath
Lucy McBath


Lucy McBath has served as a U.S. representative for Georgia since 2019, serving the 6th District from 2019-2023 and the 7th District since 2023. McBath was born on June 1, 1960, in Joliet, Illinois. Her father, Lucien Holman, served as president of the NAACP's Illinois chapter, and as a child, McBath traveled with her family to attend marches and rallies supporting the Civil Rights Movement. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Virginia State University in 1982, McBath worked as an intern for Douglas Wilder, a member […]
Ellen C McCormack
Ellen C McCormack


Eleanor "Ellen" Cullen McCormack was a pro-life candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1976 and as a third-party candidate in 1980. She was the first woman to qualify for federal campaign matching funds and for Secret Service protection. Overturning the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision with a constitutional amendment to ban abortion was the main focus of both of her campaigns. In 1976, McCormack ran for president on an exclusively pro-life platform. She appeared on the primary ballot in 18 states. She won no primaries, […]
Katherine McCormick
Katherine McCormick


Katharine Dexter McCormick was a biologist, suffragist and philanthropist. McCormick was born on August 27, 1875, in Dexter, Michigan, and grew up in Chicago. Her family was wealthy, and both of her parents believed in the education of women. In 1904, she earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the second woman to graduate from MIT. While a student, she successfully argued that a rule requiring female students to wear feathered hats was a fire hazard in laboratories, and MIT changed their policy. She […]
Rigoberta Menchu
Rigoberta Menchu


Rigoberta Menchú has been a passionate spokesperson for the rights of indigenous peoples. She won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for her work on behalf of the indigenous groups of Guatemala, her native country. However, her work has made her a leading voice for the rights of indigenous peoples throughout the Western Hemisphere. Rigoberta Menchú was born on January 9, 1959, in Chimel, a village in the Quiché province in the mountainous northwest region of Guatemala. Menchú started working on southern coastal cotton and coffee plantations when she was […]
Inez Milholland
Inez Milholland


For more information on her sister, Vida Milholland, visit her profile here: https://wp.las.iastate.edu/cattcenter-awpc/directory/vida-milholland/. Inez Milholland was a militant suffragist, often referred to as “the most beautiful suffragette.” Milholland was born on August 6, 1886, to wealthy philanthropists John E. Milholland and Jean Torry. Along with her sister, Vida, she got involved in activism early on when she studied at Vassar College. Milholland defied Vassar’s policy prohibiting suffrage clubs when she invited New York suffragist and daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Stanton Blatch, to speak on campus. When the talk […]
Vida Milholland
Vida Milholland


For more information about her sister, Inez Milholland, visit her profile here: https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/inez-milholland/ Vida Milholland was a suffragist, peace activist and performer. Milholland was born on January 17, 1888, to wealthy philanthropists John E. Milholland and Jean Torry. Along with her sister, Inez, she got involved in activism early on when she studied at Vassar College. Although she had aspirations of becoming an opera singer, Milholland gave it up in 1910 to become a full-time suffragist. Milholland and her sister toured the United States under the direction of Alice Paul […]
Abby Crawford Milton
Abby Crawford Milton


For information on her colleague, Catherine Talty Kenny, visit her profile at https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/catherine-talty-kenny/. Abby Crawford Milton was the youngest of the Southern suffrage leaders who made Tennessee the prized 36th vote to ratify the 19th Amendment. Born on February 6, 1881, in Milledgeville, Georgia, Milton was the daughter of a prominent Georgia family. In 1904, she married George Fort Milton, editor of the pro-suffrage Chattanooga News and moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Milton would go on to have three daughters between 1913 and 1917, some of the most consequential years in […]
Virginia Minor
Virginia Minor


Virginia Louisa Minor was a suffragist leader in Missouri. Minor was born on March 27, 1824, in Virginia. After her 1843 marriage, she and her husband moved to St. Louis, later purchasing a farm there just before the start of the Civil War. During war, Minor volunteered in area hospitals and provided produce from her farm for soldiers stationed nearby. Minor was the first woman in Missouri to publicly state that women should be given the right to vote. In 1867, she helped to found the Woman Suffrage Association of […]
Alice Dickerson Montemayor
Alice Dickerson Montemayor


Alice Dickerson Montemayor was a Texas feminist, artist and leader in the League of United Latin American Citizens. Though she wasn’t a suffragist in the traditional sense, Montemayor was a model for women’s political involvement and a fierce voice for gender equity. Montemayor was born on August 6, 1902, in Laredo, Texas to John and Manuela Dickerson. She graduated from high school in 1924 and hoped to study law. After her father’s death, however, she stayed in Laredo to help her mother and attended Laredo Business College for a year. […]