FitzGerald, Susan Walker (1871-1943)

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The Friendship of Settlement Work, March 28, 1903

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, October 21, 1907

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, January 24, 1908

Jane Addams to Harriet Burton Laidlaw, April 10, 1912

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Jane Addams, April 17, 1912

Jane Addams to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, August 11, 1912

Jane Addams to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, September 11, 1912

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge to Jane Addams, November 18, 1914

Jane Addams to Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, November 23, 1914

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge to Jane Addams, December 30, 1914

Alice Thacher Post to Woman's Peace Party Charter Members, January 15, 1915

Harriet Park Thomas to Alice Thacher Post, January 25, 1915

List of Members Attending the American Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Meeting , April 23-24, 1920

Jane Addams to Susan Walker FitzGerald, November 23, 1914

Susan Walker FitzGerald to Jane Addams, September 7, 1912

Susan Walker FitzGerald to Jane Addams, January 19, 1915

Susan Walker FitzGerald to Jane Addams, February 1, 1915

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Birth Date

1871-05-09

Death Date

1943-01-20

Birthplace

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Susan Walker FitzGerald was one of the first females elected to the Massachusetts legislature after the 19th Amendment was ratified. She graduated with a degree in political science from Bryn Mawr College in 1893. She was also a resident with her husband at the West Side branch of the University Settlement in New York. Fitzgerald also served as the recording secretary of the National American Women's Suffrage Association and she was involved in the Massachusetts's Women's Suffrage Association.

She married Robert Y. FitzGerald in 1901. They had four children together. FitzGerald died in 1943.