- Catharine Gougar Waugh McCulloch
- June 4, 1862 - April 20, 1945
- born Ronsomville, New York
Lawyer, Union College of Law, Chicago, met prejudice
against women lawyers, married lawyer, 4 children,
wrote key bill providing for woman suffrage
in presidential elections, submitted for 20 years before
passed in Illinois 1913, important strategic
breakthrough, copied in other states, National American
Woman Suffrage Association adviser and officer,
spoke widely, started suffrage auto tours,
organized midwestern suffrage conventions, elected
Evanston Justice of the Peace.
Biographical information excerpted from Women Win the Vote
distributed by The National Women's History Project, 7738 Bell Road,
Windsor, California, 95492-8518. Graphic and text posted by permission NWHP, 1994.
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Catharine Gougar Waugh McCulloch