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Susan B. Anthony (center) with Laura Clay, Anna Howard Shaw, Alice Stone Blackwell, Annie Kennedy Bidwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida Husted Harper, and Rachel Foster Avery in 1896.

This is a list of suffragists from the United States and its territories. This list includes suffragists who worked across state lines or nationally. See individual state or territory lists for other American suffragists not listed here.

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett at a 1913 suffrage parade.
Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Garrett Hay casting their votes in 1918

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Marget Foley in a balloon, distributing women's suffrage literature in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1910.

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  • Caroline Katzenstein (1888–1968) – suffragist and author from Philadelphia, helped form the National Woman's Party
  • Belle Kearney (1863–1939) – speaker and lobbyist for the National American Woman Suffrage Association; first woman elected to the Mississippi State Senate
  • Edna Buckman Kearns (1882–1934) – National Woman's Party campaigner, known for her horse-drawn suffrage campaign wagon (now in the collection of New York State Museum)
  • Mary Morton Kehew (1859–1918) – labor/social reformer and suffragist from Boston
  • Eliza D. Keith (1854–1939) – educator, writer, journalist; founding member/officer, Susan B. Anthony Club, San Francisco, California
  • Helen Keller (1880–1968) – author and political activist
  • Abby Kelley (1811–1887) – abolitionist, radical social reformer, fundraiser, lecturer and organizer for the American Anti-Slavery Society
  • Elizabeth Thacher Kent (1868–1952) – feminist, suffragist, environmentalist
  • Harriette A. Keyser (1841–1936), industrial reformer, social worker, author; co-organizer, New York Woman Suffrage Association
  • Caroline Burnham Kilgore (1838–1909) – the first woman to be admitted to the bar in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  • Deborah G. King (1839–1922) temperance activist and suffragist; vice-president for Nebraska of the National Woman Suffrage Association
  • Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt (1874–1961) settlement house worker, socialist, and suffragist
  • Janette Hill Knox (1845–1920) – vice-president of the Equal Suffrage Association of North Dakota; educator, temperance reformer
  • Sarah Knox-Goodrich (1826–1903) – women's rights activist from San Jose, California
  • Florence E. Kollock (1848–1925) – Universalist minister and lecturer

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  • John Neal (1793–1876) – writer, critic, first American women's rights lecturer[83]
  • A. Viola Neblett (1842–1897) – activist, suffragist, women's rights pioneer
  • Anna E. Nicholes (1865–1917) – social reformer, civil servant, clubwoman; suffragist from Chicago
  • S. Grace Nicholes (1870–1922) – secretary, Illinois Equal Suffrage Association
  • Frances Nacke Noel (1873–1963) – women's labor activist and suffragist
  • Mary A. Nolan (died 1925) – one of the oldest suffragists active on NWP picket lines

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  • H. Anna Quinby (1871–1931), editor-in-chief of the only woman suffrage paper in Ohio owned and controlled by women; president of the paper's publishing company

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