Maud Wood Park

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Maud Wood Park was an American suffragist and political activist who played a key role in securing women’s right to vote and later became the first president of the League of Women Voters.

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instanceOf human
political activist
suffragist
advocatedFor civic engagement by newly enfranchised women
women's political education
women's suffrage
affiliation College Equal Suffrage League
League of Women Voters
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National College Equal Suffrage League
archivesAt Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
linked to: Schlesinger Library
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1871-01-25
dateOfDeath 1955-05-08
educatedAt Radcliffe College
St. Agnes School
familyName Wood Park
genre non-fiction
givenName Maud
knownFor developing lobbying strategies for woman suffrage in Congress
directing the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
founding the College Equal Suffrage League
organizing college women for suffrage
languageSpoken English
movement first-wave feminism
women's suffrage movement in the United States
name Maud Wood Park
notableFor first president of the League of Women Voters
leadership in the American woman suffrage movement
lobbying for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
notableWork Front Door Lobby (autobiographical account of suffrage lobbying)
occupation lecturer
organizer
political activist
suffragist
placeOfBirth Boston, Massachusetts, United States
placeOfDeath Reading, Massachusetts, United States
politicalAlignment progressive
positionHeld chair of the National League of Women Voters
president of the League of Women Voters
religion Unitarianism
residence Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Reading, Massachusetts, United States
sexOrGender female
spouse Charles Edward Park
workedOn campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
federal suffrage amendment lobbying

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