Anna Howard Shaw
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Anna Howard Shaw was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first women to be ordained as a Methodist minister in the United States.
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Photos 6
Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw in 1917
1896 photograph of Susan B. Anthony (center) and other women's rights leaders. Shaw sits to Anthony's immediate right.
Suffrage Alliance Congress with Millicent Fawcett presiding, London 1909. Top row from left: Thora Daugaard (Denmark), Louise Qvam (Norway), Aletta Jacobs (Netherlands), Annie Furuhjelm (Finland), Madame Mirowitch (Russia), Käthe Schirmacher (Germany), Madame Honneger, unidentified. Bottom left: Unidentified, Anna Bugge (Sweden), Anna Howard Shaw (USA), Millicent Fawcett (Presiding, England), Carrie Chapman Catt (USA), F. M. Qvam (Norway), Anita Augspurg (Germany).
Shaw after receiving the Distinguished Service Medal (May 19, 1919)
Home where Shaw lived with her companion, Lucy Anthony, the niece of Susan B. Anthony.Filmography 1
Votes for WomenAwards 2
Connected to Anna 6
Isabella KarleAlso won Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
Katharine Dexter McCormickAlso won Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
Grace Lee BoggsAlso won Michigan Women's Hall of FameRosalind BrewerAlso won Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
Marina von Neumann WhitmanAlso won Michigan Women's Hall of FameMarian IlitchAlso won Michigan Women's Hall of FameAbout this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1847 to 1919 · aged 72
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21 languages
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