Catt, Carrie Chapman (1859-1947)

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International Woman Suffrage Alliance

National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

Woman's Peace Party (WPP)

Conference on the Cause and Cure of War (1930)

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, August 17, 1914

Some of the Larger Aspects of the Votes for Women Movement, c. November 1914

Comments at the National Suffrage Convention, January 26, 1914 (excerpts)

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, December 8, 1914

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, December 11, 1914

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 21, 1914

Jane Addams to Anne Porterfield Rankin, December 23, 1914

Jane Addams to Lucia Ames Mead, December 23, 1914

Jane Addams to May Wood Simons, December 26, 1914

Jane Addams to Lucia Ames Mead, December 28, 1914

Jane Addams to James Brown Scott, December 28, 1914

Jane Addams to Women's Constructive Peace Conference invitees, December 28, 1914

James Brown Scott to Jane Addams, December 31, 1914

Old Glory: The Flag of Hope for World Peace, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 1, 1915

Jane Addams to Rose Dabney Forbes, January 2, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, January 6, 1915

Jane Addams to Grace Hoffman White, January 8, 1915

Jane Addams to Anna Howard Shaw, January 8, 1915

Grace Hoffman White to Jane Addams, January 15, 1915

Anna Garlin Spencer to Jane Addams, January 18, 1915

Susan Walker FitzGerald to Jane Addams, January 19, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 19, 1915

Jane Addams to Kate Waller Barrett, February 9, 1915

Jane Addams to Anna A. Gordon, February 9, 1915

Anna A. Gordon to Jane Addams, February 10, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, February 16, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, March 24, 1915

Jane Addams to Rose Dabney Forbes, March 25, 1915

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Jane Addams, May 11, 1915

Jane Addams to Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs, July 17, 1915

Peace Campaign Abroad Clipping, August 2, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, August 4, 1915

Jane Addams to Minnie J. Reynolds, August 9, 1915

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, August 16, 1915

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, August 19, 1915

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, August 26, 1915

Mabel L. Hyers to Jane Addams, September 13, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, November 25, 1915

Harriet Park Thomas to Alice Thacher Post, December 27, 1915

Harriet Park Thomas to Alice Thacher Post, December 30, 1915

Harriet Park Thomas to Jane Addams, February 9, 1916

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Jane Addams, May 12, 1916

Crystal Eastman to Jane Addams, November 22, 1916

Alice Thacher Post to Crystal Eastman, March 12, 1917

Jane Addams to Harriet Park Thomas, March 17, 1917

Harriet Park Thomas to Jane Addams, March 14, 1917

Harriet Park Thomas to Jane Addams, March 24, 1917

Address on Anna Howard Shaw, November 13, 1919

Mary Church Terrell to Jane Addams, March 18, 1921

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Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, ca. December 1914

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, December 16, 1914

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, December 23, 1914

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, December 29, 1914

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, December 30, 1914

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Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, January 4, 1915

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Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, January 27, 1915

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, February 4, 1915

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, February 23, 1915

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, March 16, 1915

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, March 27, 1915

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, August 15, 1915

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, September 9, 1915

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, November 12, 1915

Carrie Chapman Catt to Harriet P. Thomas, December 27, 1915

Speech at Auditorium Recital Hall, February 22, 1920 (excerpts)

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, May 12, 1920

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, March 29, 1921

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, May 27, 1924

Carrie Chapman Catt to Mary Foulke Morrisson, December 19, 1924

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Statement on the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, January 28, 1925

Carrie Chapman Catt to Hannah Clothier Hull, January 30, 1925

Jane Addams, et. al. to Calvin Coolidge, ca. January 15, 1926

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, May 26, 1927

Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, June 11, 1927

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence to Carrie Chapman Catt, November 2, 1914

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, December 14, 1914

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, December 21, 1914

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, February 2, 1915

Secretary to Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, March 2, 1915

Jane Addams to Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs and Carrie Chapman Catt, September 13, 1915

Harriet Park Thomas to Carrie Chapman Catt, December 31, 1915

John Dewey et al. to Andrew Carnegie et al. January 31, 1917

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, February 22, 1917

Jane Addams to the Delegates of the International Congress of Women, November 5, 1918

Jane Addams to the Woman's Peace Party. Committee of Thirty-Five, March 22, 1919

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams et al. October 16, 1919

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, January 14, 1924

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, March 18, 1924

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, June 6, 1924

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, January 3, 1925

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, January 4, 1925

Hannah Clothier Hull to Carrie Chapman Catt, January 28, 1925

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, May 31, 1927

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, June 2, 1927

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, June 13, 1927

International Women's Suffrage Alliance (IWSA), 1904

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Birth Date

1859-01-09

Death Date

1947-03-09

Birthplace

Ripon, WI

Biographical Text

Carrie Chapman Catt grew up in Iowa, and in 1880 she graduated from Iowa State Agricultural College. After graduation, she studied law and worked as a teacher in Iowa until her marriage in 1885 to Leo Chapman, a newspaper editor. She became his coeditor at the Mason City (IA) Republican, for which she wrote about women's rights in a section entitled "Woman's World." Her husband died of typhoid fever in 1886, and in 1890 she married George William Catt (he died in 1905). In 1890, Catt attended her first national woman suffrage convention and began campaigning for the cause. In 1893, she moved to New York and dedicated her life to universal suffrage, working particularly hard in her adopted state. She became a master organizer and charismatic speaker for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, serving as the organization's president from 1900-1904 and 1915-1920. She helped found the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904. In 1920, she founded the League of Women voters.

Catt was also involved in the woman's peace movement, cofounding the Woman's Peace Party with Jane Addams in 1915. In 1925, she organized the first conference on the Cause and Cure of War, and remained an officer in that organization until 1932. For her entire life, Catt maintained a unique global perspective on peace and suffrage, and she was always true to her feminist principles. In 1947, she died of a heart attack at her home in Rochelle, NY, at the age of eighty-eight.

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Gender

Female

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1914

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"Carrie C. Catt, No. 1 Feminist, Is Dead at 88," New York Daily News, Mar. 10, 1947, p. 206.

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“Catt, Carrie Chapman (1859-1947),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed August 4, 2025, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/6589.