Edith Anna Ellis

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Women's rights activist, writer, politician, and farmer from Tompkins County, New York

United States PoliticiansLived 1868 to 1940 · aged 72

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Edith Anna Ellis was an American women's rights activist, writer, politician, and farmer from Tompkins County, New York.

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Edith Anna Ellis was an American women's rights activist, writer, politician, and farmer from Tompkins County, New York. She ran for elected office with the slogan "Insist that no man shall occupy a position that a woman can fill", a quote from a War Industries Board mandate, and other wartime slogans contextualized to support women in politics.

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