Park, Maud Wood (1871-1955)

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College Equal Suffrage League

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, November 13, 1906

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, October 05, 1908

General Committee on the Limitation of Armament Declaration and Membership, November 1921

Maude Slade Odell to Jane Addams, March 31, 1922

Jane Addams to Maude Slade Odell, April 4, 1922

Lucy Biddle Lewis to Jane Addams, July 28, 1922

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, May 27, 1924

Jane Addams to Maud Wood Park, March 11, 1921

Jane Addams to Maud Wood Park, April 1, 1921

Jane Addams to Maud Wood Park, November 1, 1922

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Birth Date

1871-01-25

Death Date

1955-05-08

Birthplace

Boston, Massachusetts

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Maud Wood Park graduated from St. Agnes School in Albany, New York, and became a teacher. Afterward she attended Radcliffe College, where she was only one of two woman suffragists. After graduating, Park was the youngest woman to attend the National American Women Suffrage Association convention in 1900. To promote woman suffrage with a younger generation, Park and Inez Haynes Gilmore formed the College Equal Suffrage League. Park also founded the National College Equal Suffrage League and the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government. In 1920 Park was the first president of the League of Women Voters. Park was also the chairwoman of the Women's Joint Congressional Committee. She also co-wrote Front Door Lobby with Edna Lamprey Stantial and wrote the play Lucy Stone.

Park married Charles Edward Park in 1899. They later divorced in 1906. In 1908 she secretly married Robert Hunter Freeman. Park died in 1955.