Virginia Minor
✓ Source-basedrisingUnited States suffragist (1824-1894)
United StatesLived 1824 to 1894 · aged 70Virginia Louisa Minor was an American women's suffrage activist in Missouri. She is best remembered as the plaintiff in Minor v. Happersett, an 1875 United States Supreme Court case in which Minor unsuccessfully argued that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.
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Virginia Louisa Minor was an American women's suffrage activist in Missouri. She is best remembered as the plaintiff in Minor v. Happersett, an 1875 United States Supreme Court case in which Minor unsuccessfully argued that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote. And the first president of the Women's suffrage Association in Missouri.
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