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Frances Willard

1839 - 1898

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Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898. Her influence continued in the next decades, as the Eighteenth (on Prohibition) and Nineteenth (on women's suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution were adopted. Willard developed the slogan "Do Everything" for the WCTU and encouraged members to engage in a broad array of social reforms by lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publishing, and education. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frances Willard is the 154th most popular social activist (up from 620th in 2019), the 1,623rd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,946th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Frances Willard ranks 154 out of 840. Before her are George Stinney, Vlado Chernozemski, Yiannis Ritsos, Beppe Grillo, Ilya Ulyanov, and Bertha Pappenheim. After her are Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Judas of Galilee, Soh Jaipil, Musa al-Sadr, Abimael Guzmán, and Hilda Gadea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Frances Willard ranks 15. Before her are Carol I of Romania, George Armstrong Custer, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Nikolay Przhevalsky, Josephine Cochrane, and Emil Škoda. After her are Théodule-Armand Ribot, Princess Cecilie of Baden, Nikolay Bobrikov, Josef Rheinberger, Machado de Assis, and Ali Rıza Efendi. Among people deceased in 1898, Frances Willard ranks 23. Before her are Félicien Rops, Theodor Fontane, Eleanor Marx, John Newlands, Heungseon Daewongun, and Henry Bessemer. After her are Edward Burne-Jones, Zachris Topelius, Georges Rodenbach, Princess Francisca of Brazil, George Müller, and Georg Ebers.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frances Willard ranks 1,623 out of 20,380. Before her are William Miller (1782), Paul Greengard (1925), Angela Bassett (1958), Edward C. Prescott (1940), Chris Cornell (1964), and John Dickson Carr (1906). After her are George Armitage Miller (1920), Martin Rodbell (1925), Tony Martin (1913), David Caruso (1956), Kelly McGillis (1957), and Robert Fogel (1926).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Frances Willard ranks 23. Before her are Catharine MacKinnon (1946), William Luther Pierce (1933), Susan B. Anthony (1820), Bugsy Siegel (1906), Cesar Chavez (1927), and George Stinney (1929). After her are David Lane (1938), Frederick Douglass (1818), Billy Milligan (1955), Sojourner Truth (1797), Fred Phelps (1929), and Martin Luther King Sr. (1899).

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