Ellis Meredith (1865-1955)
Ellis Meredith, a journalist and woman suffrage organizer, was referred to as the Susan B. Anthony of Colorado. She was president of the Denver Election Commission. It is unclear if this was an elective position.
Party Affiliation :
Vice-president of the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage League
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Resources:
“Colorado Women Describe the Benefits of Suffrage,” Akron Weekly Pioneer, February 19, 1904.
Ellis Meredith, “What It Means to Be an Enfranchised Woman,” Atlantic Monthly (August 1908), 196-202.
Rebecca A. Hunt and Marcia T. Goldstein, "From Suffrage to Centennial: A Research Guide to Colorado and National Women’s Suffrage Sources," Colorado Heritage (Spring 1993): 40-48.
Marcia T. Goldstein and Rosemary Fetter, "Let The Women Vote! Colorado Suffrage Centennial, 1893-1993," Colorado Committee for Women’s History, 1993.
Woman’s Who’s Who of America
Ellis Meredith Collection, Colorado Historical Society ( Denver, CO.)
Ellis Meredith Collection, 1930-1948. Princeton University Rare Books and Special Collections
Additional Notes]:
In 1889 Meredith joined the staff of Denver’s Rocky Mountain News. In her daily column, “Woman’s World,” she wrote in support of temperance and full suffrage for women (the women of her state had obtained the right to vote in school board elections in 1876-77 when they failed to win full suffrage rights). In the early 1890s, building coalitions with temperance, Grange, and union organizations as well as the Populist and Republican parties Meredith and other women leaders successfully lobbied the reintroduction of a suffrage referendum. Meredith was vice-president of the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage League and “supervised the 1893 referendum campaign.” On November 7, 1893 Colorado women won full suffrage.
Meredith was the author of numerous publications including Master-Knot of Human Fate (1901); Heart of My Heart (1904); Under the Harrow(1907); and Democracy at the Crossroads (1932).