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	Carrie Chapman Catt, Suffragist and Peace Advocate
		Carrie Lane was born in Ripon, Wisconsin on January 9, 1859, the daughter of Lucius Lane and Maria Clinton Lane.
		Carrie Chapman Catt spoke at least once more in St. Lawrence County when she appeared at a meeting at the Ogdensburg Opera House on October 25, 1917, again on the topic of women's suffrage.
		Catt went on to serve as the first president of the League of Women Voters which was created following the passage of the 19th Amendment.
	www.northnet.org /stlawrenceaauw/catt.htm (950 words)

	Carrie Chapman Catt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carrie was born in 1859 on a farm in Ripon, Wisconsin under the name of Carrie Clinton Lane.
		Carrie was active in these campaigns, and her writing, oratorical and organizational skills proved to be useful.
		Wealthy publisher Miriam Leslie died in 1914, bequeathing her entire estate to Carrie Chapman Catt to be used for the promotion of the cause of woman suffrage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carrie_Chapman_Catt (936 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Famous Iowans
		Carrie Lane Chapman Catt worked tirelessly to reach the goal she set at age 13: to enable women to vote.
		Catt graduated from high school, taught school for a year and enrolled at Iowa State University, graduating at the top of her otherwise all-male class in 1880.
		Catt was active in the Iowa Woman's Suffrage Association and later the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, succeeding Susan B. Anthony as president in 1890.
	desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/catt.html (297 words)

	Carrie Chapman Catt biography
		Carrie led the Empire State Campaign Committee with the slogan, “Victory in 1915.”; To make sure everyone was aware of their cause, she established a school to train volunteers in organization, public speaking, parliamentary practice and suffrage history, and made sure workers were assigned to every voting precinct in the state.
		Carrie Chapman Catt: Suffragist and Peace Advocate - Woman of Courage profile by the St. Lawrence County, NY Branch of the American Association of University Women.
		Carrie Chapman Catt: Resources for Researchers from Iowa State where controversy surrounds naming a building in her honor.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/catt-car.htm (2541 words)

	Carrie Chapman Catt
		Leo Chapman died in 1886 and Chapman moved to California for a short stint during which she worked as a newspaper reporter.
		Catt died in 1905, but his support, financial and emotional, helped Chapman Catt with her efforts.
		The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at ISU is a living memorial to Chapman Catt.
	www.lwvjc.org /catt.html (739 words)

	PBS - American Experience: Woodrow Wilson \| People
		Carrie Chapman Catt took her first step as a political activist in 1886 when she joined the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association.
		Catt was not a firebrand suffragist; rather, she worked on many fronts and used compromises to advance her cause strategically.
		Catt saw that suffrage at the state level could help strengthen the movement for a Constitutional amendment -- and where complete state suffrage could not be enacted, Catt would settle for a partial solution.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/wilson/peopleevents/p_catt.html (508 words)

	Carrie Chapman Catt
		Carrie Chapman Catt was born on January 9, 1859, in Ripon, Wisconsin.
		Stepping down from the NAWSA presidency after its victory, Catt continued her work for equal suffrage, promoting education of the newly-enfranchised by founding the new League of Women Voters and serving as its honorary president for the rest of her life.
		Honored and praised by countless institutions for her more than half-century of public service, Carrie Chapman Catt’s life was dedicated to working to oppose prejudice, discrimination, and oppression based on the philosophy of nonviolence.
	www.csufresno.edu /peacegarden/nominees/catt.htm (523 words)

	Is Determining A Critical Edition Critical? A Critical Edition of Carrie Chapman Catt's 1916 Presidential Address to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Catt, along with many of the suffragists, felt that the organization needed to decide on a clear course of action to be taken, and this had to be decided before the November national presidential election.
		Catt did not want to reveal the "Winning Plan" and was committed to keeping her plan secret until she spoke at the convention.
		Catt would send a telegram to President Wilson asking him to state his position of the plank and to give his "precise interpretation of its meaning." This is taken from the "Minutes of the NAWSA meeting, July 16, 1916." Carrie Catt papers, New York Public Library.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~jklumpp/spch711/croy.htm (2173 words)

	Carrie Chapman Catt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In 1883 Carrie became one of the first women in America to become principal and superintendent of schools in Mason City, Iowa.
		Catt continued to work for women's suffrage until the 13th Amendment was ratified on August 20, 1920.
		In 1928, Carrie moved to New Rochelle, New York where she lived until she died of a heart attack on March 9, 1947.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/catt.htm (441 words)

	Carrie Chapman Catt Girlhood Home and Museum: About Carrie Chapman Catt
		Carrie Clinton Lane was born on January 9, 1859, in Ripon, Wisconsin, the second of three children of Lucius and Maria (Clinton) Lane.
		At the time of Carrie Chapman's rise to her state organization's highest office, in June 1890, she married George Catt, a fellow Iowa Agricultural College alumnus she had met during her stay in San Francisco who encouraged her suffrage activity.
		Catt returned to the United States in 1915 to resume the leadership of NAWSA, which had become badly divided under the leadership of Anna Howard Shaw.
	www.catt.org /ccabout.html (877 words)

	Carrie Chapman Catt Center For Women And Politics - Ames, Iowa - Iowa Tourism Information
		Founded in 1992, the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics provides leadership development and educational opportunities for women and men interested in politics, public policy and administration, and public service through programs blending the resources and scholarship of the academic environment with the actual experiences of individuals in the public and private sectors.
		Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman Catt--suffragist, early feminist, political activist, and Iowa State alumna--was born on January 9, 1859, in Ripon, Wisconsin, to Maria Clinton and Lucius Lane.
		Catt was honorary president of the group for the rest of her life.
	www.iowabeautiful.com /central-iowa-tourism/349-carrie-chapman-catt-center-for-women-and-politics-ames-iowa.html (776 words)

	Carrie Chapman Catt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Carrie Lane at the age of seven moved to Iowa where she began preparatory schooling.
		Carrie Chapman married George Catt, a fellow Iowa state alumnus in June of 1890.
		Catt's interests broadened in her later years to include the causes of world peace and child labor.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /00_01/WH/bsp/bsp.htm (337 words)

	Carrie Chapman Catt
		Carrie Lane was born in Wisconsin in 1860.
		Catt agreed with Carrie's political views and signed a contract agreeing that she could devote half of each year to the campaign for women's suffrage.
		At the end of the 19th century Catt emerged as one of the leaders of the women's suffrage movement and in 1900 was elected president of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAcatt.htm (236 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -CATT, CARRIE CHAPMAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Catt, born Carrie Lane in Ripon, Wisconsin, spent most of her youth in Iowa, where she went to college.
		In Catt's approach to politics, organization was the watchword and she was superb at it.
		Catt was proud of her role in this organization until the end of her life.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_015000_cattcarriech.htm (526 words)

	History Opens Its Heart to Carrie Chapman Catt
		Catt, twice widowed, was 61 and had been in the fight since she was 30.
		Catt spent half of July and most of August 1920 in sweltering Tennessee, where she had been summoned as the crucial 36th state moved toward ratification.
		Chapman died of typhoid a year and a half later and the widow sustained herself as a journalist and lecturer.
	www.womensenews.org /article.cfm/dyn/aid/2586 (1161 words)

	Votes for Women: Carrie Chapman Catt
		Carrie Lane was born in Wisconsin in 1859.
		In 1887, Chapman returned to Charles City, Iowa, and joined the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association for whom she worked as a professional writer and lecturer.
		Grief-stricken over the dual deaths of George Catt (October 1905) and Susan B. Anthony (February 1906), Catt was encouraged by her doctor and her friends to travel abroad.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/naw/cattbio.html (699 words)

	Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
		Carrie gave up her other ambitions and only wanted to be a good wife.
		Carrie and Leo were moving to San Francisco to start a new life there when Leo suddenly became ill, and died within a few days.
		Carrie did her part also, but all the while, she, and others with her, kept trying to win the vote.
	www.rit.edu /~kecncp/Courses/Materials/WomenLeaders/WL15text-Catt.htm (934 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In June of 1890, Chapman married George Catt, a fellow Iowa State alumnus she had met during her stay in San Francisco who encouraged her suffrage activity.
		Grief-stricken over the dual deaths of George Catt (October 1905) and Susan B. Anthony (February 1906), Catt was encouraged by her doctor and her friends to travel abroad.
		Stepping down from the presidency of NAWSA after its victory, Catt continued her work for equal suffrage, founding the new League of Women Voters, and serving as its honorary president for the rest of her life.
	t3.preservice.org /T0301022/catt.html (711 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Profiles Carrie Chapman Catt, an educator, prohibitionist, and women's rights advocate who was instrumental in the passage of the nineteenth amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
		Long before Carrie Chapman Catt led the women's suffrage forces of the United States to final victory with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, she was a young educator and journalist in Mason City, Iowa.
		A brief biography of Carrie Chapman Catt and other people noteworthy to the election process as it is today, with links to the suffrage movement and women's social reform.
	www.rbls.lib.il.us /sel/carrie_chapman_catt.htm (424 words)

	Carrie Chapman Catt Albums \| Special Collections \| Bryn Mawr College Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Carrie Chapman Catt Albums, part of the Carrie Chapman Catt Papers, are the physical property of Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library.
		Carrie Lane Chapman Catt was an internationally recognized suffragist, feminist and political activist.
		Legends (presumably written by Catt) accompany all of the images; some appear in white ink on the fl mounting paper and others in fl ink handwritten directly on the photographs.
	www.brynmawr.edu /library/speccoll/guides/catt.shtml (879 words)

	Carrie Chapman Catt Papers (Library of Congress)
		Carrie Chapman Catt A Register of Her Papers in the Library of Congress Prepared by Grover Batts and Thelma Queen 1974 Manuscript Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C. Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, January 1999; encoding completed by Manuscript Division, 1999.
		Copyright Status: Copyright in the unpublished writings of Carrie Chapman Catt in these and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
		Catt's papers are closely linked by provenance and subject matter with the Blackwell family papers, and with the records of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, of which Catt was president.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/catt.html (1465 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Carrie Chapman Catt becomes president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1900.
		Catt had previously lived in Seattle, where in 1891 she was founding president of the Women's Century Club.
		Catt served as president of the NAWSA from 1900 to 1904, when she stepped down to care for her ailing husband.
		She returned as president in 1915 and launched her "Winning Plan." It was a meticulously organized grassroots crusade to amend the constitution of the United States to grant women the right to vote.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=470 (174 words)

	American Women! exhibit--Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
		Carrie Lane grew up in Charles City, Iowa, and later worked as a dishwasher for nine cents an hour in order to stay in college at Ames.
		After being widowed from her marriage to Leo Chapman, Carrie organized for women's rights in Iowa, and in 1890 married George W. Catt when he agreed that four months a year she would campaign for suffrage.
		PETITION to the House of Representatives from Carrie Chapman Catt, Committee on Suffrage
	hoover.archives.gov /exhibits/AmericanWomen/prairie-polls/Addams-Catt.html (509 words)

	21/7/3: Alumni and Former Students - Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
		Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, suffragist, early feminist, political activist, and Iowa State alumna (1880), was born on January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin to Maria Clinton and Lucius Lane.
		Catt looked ahead and encouraged the formation of a non-partisan group, the League of Women Voters, a group still viable today.
		Carrie attained much recognition for her work throughout her life and received many awards such as the Chi Omega in 1941, the Pictorial Review Award for her international disarmament work in 1931, and induction into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame.
	www.lib.iastate.edu /arch/rgrp/21-7-3.html (747 words)

	National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
		to When she married Leo Chapman, she joined him to co-edit a newspaper, but their marriage was cut short by his sudden death.
		She led a push for an amendment to the federal constitution and at the same time continued campaigns in the states to increase the pressure and the numbers of suffrage states.
		Carrie Chapman Catt also did international work for woman suffrage, repeatedly touring Europe and presiding in international suffrage groups.
	www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=38 (375 words)

	Carrie Catt/Sanatized History Discussion (March 1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		By the suffragists' reasoning, and Catt was outspoken on this, it was unfair that women, knowledgeable of civic affairs, would be excluded from elections while uneducated men could enjoy the privilege.
		Catt was a "racist" but what she achieved did greatly benefit women of all colors.
		CCC was recognized by Latin American, Japanese, Filipina and Hungarian women for aiding the growth of women's networks.
	www.h-net.org /~women/threads/disc-catt.html (2344 words)

	Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, 5-26-27
		Catt's public support for Addams represented a reconciliation between two branches of the former suffrage movement.
		Catt had caused a split within the women's movement during her term as President of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association.
		Although Catt was a pacifist, she committed NAWSA to the war effort with the belief that such an expression of patriotism and support would further the suffrage cause.
	womhist.binghamton.edu /milit/doc13.htm (828 words)

	Excerpts from: A History of the American Suffragist Movement, © The Moschovitis Group, Inc.
		Within three years of graduating first in her class at Iowa State Agriculture College, Carrie Lane was so recognized by her community that she was promoted to superintendent of the schools in Mason City, Iowa.
		She married journalist Leo Chapman in 1885 and followed him to California--only to discover that he had just died.
		She worked as a San Francisco journalist before returning to Iowa to marry George Catt in 1890; he signed a prenuptial agreement promising that she could travel for the women's movement four months of every year.
	www.suffragist.com /ex6.htm (382 words)

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