The Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association operated from 1881 to 1920. The organization was part of the broader women's suffrage movement in the United States and it sought to secure the right of women
Sarah Burger Stearns was named the organization's first president in 1881.
Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial at the State Capitol in 2021.
Julia Bullard Nelson
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Julia Bullard Nelson was an American temperance and women's rights activist from Red Wing, Minnesota. Following the death of her husband and their only child, she went south to Texas, in 1869, to teac
Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association
…drew the attention of Minnesota's male lawmakers. In 1893, the MWSA convinced the Minnesota Senate to take up women's suffrage legislation. President Julia Bullard Nelson worked with Ignatius Donnelly, a populist state senator. Populist regularly supported a women's suffrage agenda. Nelson herself was a populist school…
Julia B. Nelson, c. 1866
Portrait of Julia Bullard Nelson in Galveston, Texas, c. 1869.