Clarke, Grace Julian (1865–1938)

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Clarke, Grace Julian (1865–1938)

American suffragist and clubwoman. Born Grace Giddings Julian, Sept 11, 1865, in Centerville, Indiana; died June 18, 1938, in Irvington, Indiana; dau. of George Washington Julian (abolitionist and Republican US congressional representative) and Laura (Giddings) Julian; m. Charles B. Clarke (attorney and politician), Sept 11, 1887.

Promoted cause of woman suffrage among women's clubs; served as president of Indiana Federation of Women's Clubs (1909–11); served as director and national press chair of General Federation of Women's Clubs (1912–16); helped found Woman's School Commissioner Organization (1910, later Woman's School League) to elect a woman to Indianapolis school board; with Dr. Amelia Keller and others, formed Woman's Franchise League of Indiana; appointed head of women's division of Federal Employment Bureau in Indianapolis by President Woodrow Wilson (1916); worked on behalf of world peace and supported idea of a League of Nations; collected father's Later Speeches (1889) and wrote about him in Some Impressions (1902) and George W. Julian (1923).

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