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6 unusual facts about League of Women Voters


International Alliance of Women

The organization's first President Carrie Chapman Catt also founded the League of Women Voters in the United States during her presidency.

Kate Waller Barrett

Katherine Barrett was a charter member and vice president of the League of Women Voters, and a motivating force behind the creation of the American Legion Auxiliary.

Lakeland Community College

After the group had gathered enough evidence to justify its establishment, the local League of Women Voters petitioned successfully to place the issue on a countywide ballot, and it passed in 1965; the passage of the related levy passed in 1967.

Reuben Brown House

Presumably the League of Women Voters had one of their first meetings in the house in the early 20th century.

Vital Communities

Vital Communities began in 1997, when the League of Women Voters of the Upper Valley spun off its Upper Valley: 2001 and Beyond project into "Vital Communities of the Upper Valley." Dedicated to social, economic, environmental, and cultural issues, the group began three programs: Community Profiles, Valley VitalSigns, and Valley Quest, which still exists today.

Wisconsin Supreme Court

This change, over an alternate by the League of Women Voters, was proposed by the Wisconsin Realtors Association and Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce.


Electoral reform in the United States

One of these is FairVote, which provides a long list of "endorsers" of IRV, including President Obama, Senator John McCain, policy analyst Michael E. Arth, the Green and Libertarian parties, a dozen state chapters of the League of Women Voters, four state chapters of the Democratic Party, the Republican party of Alaska, and many others.

Jane Briggs Hart

She was a founding member of the National Organization for Women, and served as board member and national convention delegate for the Birmingham, Michigan League of Women Voters.

Loleta Fyan

Dawson’s political activity may have been an influence on Fyan’s lifelong participation in a variety of organizations, including the American Library Association, the Michigan Library Association, the League of Women Voters and the Michigan Rural-Urban Women’s Conference.

Mary Morain

After working part-time for the New England Home for Little Wanderers, an institution that cared for vulnerable mothers, she became a volunteer for Planned Parenthood, later becoming president of the Planned Parenthood Association in Boston, as well as the League of Women Voters.

Phyllis Morse

She also served on the national board of the Midwest Tool Collectors Association, the Arkansas State board of the League of Women Voters, and was an exhibit consultant for the Memphis Pink Palace Museum and the Memphis Mud Island Museum.

The Yogurt Connection

Linda was head of the Indianapolis League of Women Voters, president of the local chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women and a volunteer fund-raiser for the city's new zoo.

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

Other board members included Harold Hitz Burton, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and a future Supreme Court justice; Percival Brundage, senior partner in the Price Waterhouse and future budget director for President Dwight D. Eisenhower; Louise Wright, chairwoman of the voters department of government and foreign policy for the League of Women Voters.


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Evelyn Barron

Prior to entering political office, she was president of the New South Wales Women's Justices Association; active in Civilian Widows' Association; a member of Good Neighbour Council; president of the (Australian) League of Women Voters; a member of New South Wales National Council of Women; and active in the movement for Australia Women's Charter.