The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan American nonprofit political organization. Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include registering voters, providing voter information, boosting
Founder Carrie Chapman Catt
Headquarters building in Washington, DC, circa 1920s
Minnesota delegation at Washington, DC headquarters, 1923
Carrie Chapman Catt 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
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt's girlhood home with Suffrage Trail Marker visible in Charles City, Iowa. Photo uploaded with permission of the National Nineteenth Amendment Society.
Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt in 1917