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Upton, Harriet Taylor

Name:Harriet Taylor Upton
Reason: Harriet Upton was a trail blazer. Harriet along with her friend Susan B Anthony paved the way for women's rights. Harriet's contributions to the Suffrage movement changed the lives of women.
Sent: Sun 2/7/2010 1:07 PM

Name:Harriet Taylor Upton
Reason: She was one of the founders of the Suffrage Movement and served as president of that organization at one time. Her home in Warren, Ohio has been preserved and contains a library and museum of Suffrage history.
Sent: Sun 2/7/2010 8:24 PM

Name:Harriet Taylor Upton
Reason: As a leader in both the state and national Women's suffrage movement, Harriet Taylor Upton represented Ohio. Her term as Treasurer of NAWSA established the national headquarters in Warren, Ohio. During the time of ratification of the amendment her associations with congressman and others in political power, Harriet continued to use her influence to gain the vote for women. Harriet's image is seen in many photographs of the period because of her association with leaders of the time. Her decades long work to gain the vote for women who had not had a voice in government helped to change our state and country. Currently, her home is the only National Historic Landmard in Trumbull County and as a women who represented women in her community, state and country she should be honored in Washington, D.C.
Sent: Mon 2/8/2010 8:28 AM

Name:Harriet Taylor Upton
Reason: She was a great person and was a pioneer in her day. She taught people that women can do things just as well as men can. Maybe even better.
Sent: Wed 2/17/2010 6:48 PM

Name:Harriet Taylor Upton
Reason: Mrs. Upton was instrumental in getting the amendment passed for women to have the right to vote. This right affects every woman who has lived since 1920. Mrs. Upton was the invidual who was sent by Susan B. Anthony, whom she affectionately called aunt, to many states to boost the morale and spirits of the women in that state, to keep the process and progress for women's right to vote into becoming a reality. She ran the Women's Suffrage Movement out of her home in Warren, Ohio for many years. She devoted her whole life to achieving this goal.
Sent: Fri 2/19/2010 3:27 PM

Name:Harriet Taylor Upton
Reason: Harriet was national known in the suffrage movement and was Treasurer of the National Suffrage Movement for 15 years , working closely with usan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was President of the Ohio movement for 15 years, with offices in Warren, Ohio. Her home in Warren was at none time the temporary home of the National Women's Suffrage movement. SHe was the first woman elected to the Warren School Board serving for 15 years, at one point as President. From 1918 until her retirement in 1924, she served as Republican National Committeewoman and was the first woman in the United States ato hold such a position in any political party. She contributed greatly to the status of women. In additioin, she added to literature, writing a number of children's storied and several books. A history of the Western Reserve, TGhe Early Presidents, their wives and children, and in 1909, a two volume history of Trumbull ounty, still considered one of the best records of the early days.
Sent: Fri 2/19/2010 4:27 PM

Name:Harriet Taylor Upton
Reason: She is a very important figure in history as she is was very influential in the suffrage movement to give women the right to vote.
Sent: Fri 2/19/2010 5:50 PM

Name:Harriet Taylor Upton
Reason: She should be selected for all she did to help get woman's rights to vote. She is one of the most recognized woman in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio to all of the females in this city.
Sent: Sat 2/20/2010 1:06 AM

Name:Harriet Upton
Reason: She was the first chairman of the Republican National Committee, was at the head of the woman's suffrage movement in both Ohio and the nation, and was pivotal in getting women the right to vote. Ohio should be proud to claim her as a resident, and the legacy her name means for the rights of women nationally. It would be especially powerful for Ohio to recognize her as they increase the equality of representation in National Statuary Hall by honoring a woman with one of Ohio's statues.
Sent: Sat 2/20/2010 7:37 PM