Laura de Force Gordon

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American activist and lawyer

United States LawyersLived 1838 to 1907 · aged 68

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Laura de Force Gordon was a California lawyer, newspaper publisher, and a prominent suffragette. She was the first woman to run a daily newspaper in the United States, and the second female lawyer admitted to practice in California.

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Portrait from the official publication of her speech at the Columbian Exposition in 1892.

Advertisement in the San Francisco Daily Alta for a talk on suffrage given by Gordon in 1870.

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