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Carrie Chapman Catt

1859 - 1947

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Carrie Chapman Catt (born Carrie Clinton Lane; January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920. She founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904, which was later named International Alliance of Women. She "led an army of voteless women in 1919 to pressure Congress to pass the constitutional amendment giving them the right to vote and convinced state legislatures to ratify it in 1920". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carrie Chapman Catt is the 14,936th most popular politician (up from 15,162nd in 2019), the 7,544th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,668th in 2019) and the 588th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Carrie Chapman Catt ranks 14,936 out of 19,576Before her are Halszka Osmólska, Ali Farzat, Cearl of Mercia, Uwe Barschel, Johan Ramstedt, and Carla Marangoni. After her are Leofric, Earl of Mercia, Andrzej Lepper, Jacques Cheminade, Sextus Julius Caesar, John Podesta, and Themba Masuku.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Carrie Chapman Catt ranks 118Before her are Juan Campisteguy, Florian Cajori, Ludwig Knorr, Paul Passy, Nikolay Kasatkin, and Stefan Toshev. After her are Karel Halíř, Luigi Capello, Cecilia Grierson, A. E. Housman, Pandeli Evangjeli, and Anatole Le Braz. Among people deceased in 1947, Carrie Chapman Catt ranks 175Before her are Gilbert Bougnol, Edwin Hedley, Miguel Abadía Méndez, R. B. Bennett, Ossi Oswalda, and Riichi Yokomitsu. After her are Wilfred Hudson Osgood, Rosalia Zemlyachka, Nikolai Chebotaryov, Grantley Goulding, Somnath Sharma, and August Blom.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carrie Chapman Catt ranks 7,546 out of 20,380Before her are Julia Faye (1892), Lee Meriwether (1935), Michael J. Adams (1930), Ken Foree (1948), Alan Freed (1921), and Elisabeth Moss (1982). After her are Jack Dongarra (1950), Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), John Podesta (1949), Richard D. Wolff (1942), and Carl O. Sauer (1889).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Carrie Chapman Catt ranks 588Before her are Jeff Sessions (1946), Debbie Rowe (1958), Mary E. Peters (1948), William Joseph Simmons (1880), Louis McLane (1786), and Wilford Woodruff (1807). After her are John Podesta (1949), Joe Kennedy III (1980), Wilbur Ross (1937), Charles Lang (1902), Roger B. Taney (1777), and Gary Locke (1950).