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This is a list of New Jersey suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in New Jersey.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2021)

Groups

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  New Jersey chapter of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage is formed in 1915.
• Equal Franchise Society of New Jersey, organized in 1910.
• Equal Justice League, formed in Bayonne in 1911.
• Equal Suffrage League of the Amboys.
• Essex County Suffrage Society.
• Hudson County Woman Suffrage Party.
• Montclair Equal Suffrage League.
• National Woman's Party (NWP) of New Jersey.
• New Brunswick Equal Suffrage League.
• New Jersey Men's League for Equal Suffrage, formed in 1910.
• New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (NJSFCWC).
• New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA), formed in 1867.
• Orange Political Study Club (OPSC), created in 1898.
• Progressive Woman Suffrage Society.
• Rutherford Equal Suffrage League.
• Sewaren Equal Suffrage League.
• Vineland Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1866.
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
• Woman's Political Union of New Jersey.

Suffragists

• Minnie Abbott (Atlantic City).
• Minnie Adams (Sewaren).
• Caroline B. Alexander (Hoboken).
• Antoinette Brown Blackwell (Elizabeth).
• Emma L. Blackwell.
• Henry Browne Blackwell (Orange).
• Cornelia Foster Bradford.
• Augusta Cooper Bristol (Vineland).
• Charlotte Emerson Brown.
• Ida E. Duckett Brown.
• Katharine H. Browning (West Orange).
• Mary E. Cary Burrell (Essex County).
• Harriet Frances Carpenter (Newark).
• Flora Gapen Charters.
• Edith H. Colby (West Orange).
• Mary Kendall Loring Colvin (East Orange).
• Henrietta Green Crawford (Vineland).
• Agnes M. Cromwell (Mendham).
• Seymour L. Cromwell.
• May Chase Cummings (Middlesex County).
• Fanny B. Downs (Orange).
• Sarah Corson Downs.
• Mary Dubrow (Passaic).
• Thomas Edison (West Orange).
• Charlotte N. Enslin (Orange).
• Bertha L. Fearey (East Orange).
• Lillian Feickert.
• Florence F. Foster.
• Susan Pecker Fowler (Vineland).
• Cecilia Gaines (Jersey City).
• Emma O. Gantz (East Orange).
• Angelina Grimké.
• Sarah Moore Grimké.
• Florence Howe Hall.
• Phebe Hanaford (Jersey City).
• Alma Arabella Parker Harvey (Deal).
• Carrie H. Henry (Jersey City).
• Alison Turnbull Hopkins (Morristown).
• Julia Hurlbut (Morristown).
• Cornelia C. Hussey (East Orange).
• Mary D. Hussey (East Orange).
• Anna B. Jeffery.
• Elizabeth A. Kingsbury (Vineland).
• Beatrice Kinkead (Montclair).
• Martha Klatscken (East Orange).
• Clara Schlee Laddey.
• Harriet Lafetra (Monmouth).
• Alice Lakey (Cranford).
• Amelia Berndt Moorfield (Newark).
• Mary Pattison (Colonia).
• Alice Paul (Mt. Laurel).
• Mary Philbrook (Newark).
• Aaron Macy Powell.
• Anita Stillman Quarles (Hoboken).
• Florence Spearing Randolph.
• Ella M. Rice (Middlesex County).
• Linton Satterthwaite (Trenton).
• Melinda Scott (Newark).
• Phoebe Scott (Morristown).
• Agnes Anne Schermerhorn (East Orange).
• Therese Walling Seabrook (Keyport).
• Sarah E. Selover (South River).
• Minola Graham Sexton (Orange).
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Tenafly).
• Lucy Stone (Orange).
• Rhea Vickers.
• Mina Van Winkle.

  

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• William Miller Baird.
• Robert Carey (Jersey City).
• Thomas Chattle.
• Everett Colby.
• Walter Evans Edge.
• Charles M. Egan (Jersey City).
• John Franklin Fort.
• William C. Gebhardt (Hunterdon County).
• Charles O'Connor Hennessy (Bergen County).
• Henry Lafetra (Monmouth).
• Victor Mavalag (Elizabeth).
• Walter I. McCoy.
• William Lawrence Saunders (Plainfield).
• Judge John Whitehead.
• Alexander Wilder (Newark).
• Grant Griesman (Bowdoin ‘24)
• Alan Casey (from Madrid)

Suffragists campaigning in New Jersey

• Alice Stone Blackwell.
• Lillie Devereux Blake.
• Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg.
• Harriot Stanton Blatch.
• Carrie Chapman Catt.
• Mariana Wright Chapman.
• Liska Stillman Churchill.
• Annie Le Porte Diggs.
• Rheta Childe Dorr.
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
• Kate M. Gordon.
• Mary Garrett Hay.
• Clara Cleghorn Hoffman.
• Julia Ward Howe.
• Fola La Follette.
• Mary Livermore.
• Sophia Loebinger.
• Ellis Meredith.
• George Middleton.
• Florence Miller.
• Emmeline Pankhurst.
• Emily Pierson.
• Anita Pollitzer.
• Minnie Reynolds.
• Helen Ring Robinson.
• Anna Howard Shaw.
• Mary Church Terrell.
• Mabel Vernon.
• Fanny Garrison Villard.
• Elizabeth Upham Yates.

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Men's Anti-Suffrage League of New Jersey.
• New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NJAOWS) is formed in 1912.

People

• Anna Dayton (Trenton).
• Georgiana Breese.
• Frances Cleveland (Princeton).
• Harriet Clark Fisher (Trenton).
• Mrs. O. D. Oliphant (Trenton).
• John A. Matthews (Newark).
• William Francis Magie (Princeton).
• Blanche O. Roebling (Trenton).

Anti-suffragists campaigning in New Jersey

• Minnie Bronson.
• Josephine Jewell Dodge.
• Alice N. George.

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in New Jersey
• Women's suffrage in New Jersey
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

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