Ripon is birthplace of League's founder Catt

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | February 18, 2001| | Copyright

Ripon is birthplace of League's founder Catt

Sunday, February 18, 2001

Ripon is best known as the birthplace of the Republican Party and little known as the birthplace of the woman who gave birth to the League of Women Voters.

Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, who was born in Ripon in 1859, succeeded Susan B. Anthony as the leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States and headed the campaign to ratify the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote on Aug. 26, 1920.

Wisconsin, by the way, was the first state to ratify the amendment.

Other than a historic marker, there's little in ...

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