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Played by Anjelica Huston
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT (1859-1947)
Born in Wisconsin, Carrie Chapman Catt worked tirelessly on behalf of suffrage for women. She became a high school principal in Iowa in 1881 and was appointed one of the
first female superintendents in the country in 1883. When she married engineer
George W. Catt in 1890, the couple had an unusual prenuptial agreement, stipulating that Catt would have four months per year to pursue suffrage. In 1902 she founded the International Woman Suffrage Association and served as its honorary president until 1923. She headed the New York suffrage movement, organizing two campaigns that won the state vote for women in 1917. During that time, she reorganized NAWSA and became its president in 1915. Catt's strategy involved working at both the federal and state levels; she developed a membership system, study courses and organizing manuals for
NAWSA. On good terms with President Wilson, Catt clashed with Alice Paul, who urged women to vote against Wilson in 1916 because he had failed to support suffrage. After the 19th Amendment was adopted, Catt reconstituted NAWSA as the League of Women voters, with 2 million members. She appeared on the cover of Time in 1926.
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