Frances Willard

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Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839-1898) was an

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1839 - 1898

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American educator, temperance reformer, and women suffragist.

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American - Temperance - Women suffragist

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Willard was elected president of United States Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, a position which she held for life. She created the Formed Worldwide W.C.T.U. in 1883, and was elected its president in 1888.

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union - 1879 - 1883 - 1888

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She founded the magazine The Union Signal, and was its editor from 1892 through 1898.

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The Union Signal - 1892 - 1898

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Her tireless efforts for women's suffrage and prohibition included a fifty-day speaking tour in 1874, averaging 30,000 miles of travel a year, and four hundred lectures a year for a ten year period. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution.

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Eighteenth (Prohibition) - Nineteenth (Women Suffrage)

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She wrote Woman and Temperance, Nineteen Beautiful Years, A Great Mother, Glimpses of Fifty Years, and a large number of magazine articles.

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