Harriet Grim

Harriet E. Grim[1] was an American suffragist. She was known for being a skilled orator. She traveled through the midwest urging states to adopt their own equal suffrage amendments.

Harriet Grim
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Suffragist
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Early life and education

Grim attended high school in Canton, Illinois. She entered college in 1904.[2] Around 1907, she traveled to Europe to study the women's suffrage movement.[1]

Career

Suffragist

By her early twenties, Grim had already gained national attention for her work advocating for equal suffrage. She pushed the Republican Party to include an equal suffrage plank in its platform. An Iowa newspaper at the time credited Grim's oratory skills along with her youth and beauty for bringing support to the plank.[2]

When the Illinois state senate passed its equal suffrage bill in 1911, Grim was the only woman present.[3] Grim worked for Wisconsin to pass a state suffrage amendment in 1912. She spent a year leading up to the vote traveling the state giving public speeches.[4] In 1914 she traveled to North Dakota to give speeches and urge the passage of a state suffrage amendment there.[5]

Later career

Grim later became a school principal in Darlington, Wisconsin.[6] In 1927 she was appointed to the Wisconsin State Board of Control.[7]

References
  1. "Coming to Cairo". The Cairo bulletin. October 7, 2010. p. 3. ISSN 2381-3172. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  2. "Suffragists Insist on Plank in the National Party Platform". Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. June 16, 1908. ISSN 2375-3285. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  3. "Suffragists win in Illinois" (PDF). The new York Times. March 24, 1911. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  4. "Works Year for Suffrage in Wis". Brisbee daily record. November 5, 1912. ISSN 2157-3255. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  5. "Many Speakers Boost Votes for Women". The Bottineau courant. October 2, 1914. ISSN 2576-6872. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  6. Wisconsin Journal of Education. The Association. 1916. p. 107.
  7. Senate, Wisconsin Legislature (1949). Senate Manual, Wisconsin. p. 207.
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