Maud wood park biography templates

Maud Wood Park  was a leading congressional lobbyist for women’s suffrage who became the first president of the National League of Women Voters.

Born in Boston in 1871 to Mary Russell (Collins) and James Rodney Wood, she attended St.

Agnes School in Albany, N.Y., and taught school for eight years before attending  Radcliffe College, where she was a co-ed intercollegiate debater. In 1898, she and fellow student  Inez Haynes Irwin  invited  Alice Stone Blackwell, a leading feminist and suffragist and daughter of Lucy Stone and Henry B.

Blackwell, to address Radcliffe students. She secretly married Charles Edward Park before graduating summa cum laude.

A frequent speaker, she joined the  Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association  (MWSA).

After attending her first National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) meeting as nearly the only young woman, she committed to engaging students in the suffrage movement. She organized a  College Equa