General Correspondence Executive Council (NAWSA) NAWSA National American Woman Suffrage Association Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women President Anna Howard Shaw Moylan, Pa. 1st Vice-President Jane Addams Hull House, Chicago, Ill. 2nd Vice-President Mrs. Desha Breckinridge Lexington, Ky. 3rd Vice-President Caroline Ruutz-Rees Greenwich, Conn. Recording Secretary Susan W. Fitzgerald 7 Greenough Ave., [Jam?i?a] Plain, mass. Corresponding Secretary Mary Ware Dennett 505 Fifth Avenue, New York Treasurer Katharine Dexter McCormick 505 Fifth Avenue, New York 1st Auditor Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw 6 East 66th Street, New York 2nd Auditor Mrs. Joseph Tilton Bowen 1430 Astor Street, Chicago, Ill. [*FILE] WHITE STATES . . FULL SUFFRAGE SHADED " . . PARTIAL " DARK " . . NO " February 19, 1914 Dear Member of the Executive Council:- The vote on the first three applications for auxiliary membership which were submitted to you is being announced to-day and is as follows: The Kentucky Equal Rights Association, admitted by unanimous vote, The Woman's Political Union of New York admitted almost unanimously - only one adverse vote. The vote on the Congressional Union was 54 against admission, 24 in favor of admission, 3 blank ballots - making the total response to the vote 81. The total possible vote was 111. It takes a two-thirds vote, that is 74 votes, to admit an auxiliary member. We have now received an application from the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia for auxiliary membership, which reads as follows: February 16, 1914. My dear Mrs. Bennett:- The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia herewith makes application for admission as auxiliary member to the National American Woman Suffrage Association and enclose check for One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) in payment of said membership. Sincerely yours, (Signed) Idla Meade Valentine, President. Technically speaking, this note should have been preceded by the statement that the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia withdraws National American Woman Suffrage Association Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President National Headquarters, 171 Madison Avenue Telephone, 4818 Murray Hill New York 1st Vice-President Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Mass. 2nd Vice-President Miss Mary Garrett Hay, New York 3rd Vice-President Mrs. Raymond Brown, New York 5th Vice-President Mrs. Helen Gardener, Washington, D. C. National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc. Miss Esther G. Ogden, President 171 Madison Ave., New York League of Women Voters Chairman Mrs. Charles H. Brooks Wichita, Kansas Secretary Miss Katherine Pierce 112 N. Broadway Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Press Department Miss Rose Young, Director 171 Madison Ave., New York Treasurer Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, Conn. Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Frank J. Shuler, New York Recording Secretary Mrs. Halsey W. Wilson, New York Directors Mrs. Charles H. Brooks, Kansas Mrs. J. C. Cantrill, Kentucky Mrs. Richard E. Edwards, Indiana Mrs. George Gellhorn, Missouri Mrs. Ben Hooper, Wisconsin Mrs. Arthur Livermore, New York Miss Esther G. Ogden, New York Mrs. George A. Pierson, Pennsylvania January 9, 1920. To the Members of the Executive Council: Article IX, Sec. I reads: The Executive Council consists of the Board of Directors of the Association, the chairmen of standing and special committees, the presidents of Affiliated suffrage organizations and one member from each Affiliated organization which pays dues on a membership of 1,500 or more, such member of the Executive Council who holds office in any suffrage organization which does not endorse the policy of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. I hereby call the pre-convention meeting of the Executive Council to be held in the Congress Hotel, Chicago, Friday morning, February 13th, at 9:30 A. M. The Convention opens in the afternoon. The chief business to come before the Council will first be considered by the Board of Directors which will probably make recommendations to the Council. If it does the Council will consider those recommendations and make its own recommendations to the Convention for final action. These subjects are: (1) Shall the National American Woman Suffrage Association dissolve when the last task concerning the extension of suffrage to women is completed? (2) Shall it recommend its members to join the League of Women Voters? (3) Shall this be the last suffrage Convention held under the auspices of the National American Woman Suffrage Association? If now, when shall the next be called? National American Woman Suffrage Association Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President National Headquarters, 171 Madison Avenue Telephone, 4818 Murray Hill New York 1st Vice-President Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Mass. 2nd Vice-President Miss Mary Garrett Hay, New York 3rd Vice-President Mrs. Guilford Dudley, Tennessee 4th Vice-President Mrs. Raymond Brown, New York 5th Vice-President Mrs. Helen Gardener, Washington, D. C. Treasurer Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, Connecticut Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Frank J. Shuler, New York Recording Secretary Mrs. Halsey W. Wilson, New York Press Department Miss Rose Young, Director 171 Madison Ave., New York Directors Mrs. Charles H. Brooks, Kansas Mrs. J. C. Cantrill, Kentucky Mrs. Richard E. Edwards, Indiana Mrs. George Gellhorn, Missouri Mrs. Ben Hooper, Wisconsin Mrs. Arthur Livermore, New York Miss Esther G. Ogden, New York Mrs. George A Piersol, Pennsylvania March 18th 1921. To the Executive Council: I hereby call the Executive Council of the National American Woman Suffrage Association to meet at the Statler Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday morning, April 13th, at 10:30. The object of this meeting will be to hear the report of progress toward dissolution of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The League of Women Voters will be in session at the same time, but no other opportunity for holding this meeting is presented by the program and hence this call is made. The returns of the questionnaire sent you a few days ago indicated that the attendance on Sunday morning would be too small to warrant calling the Council at that time. There will be no Executive Council luncheon or dinner. Will you kindly inform me on the enclosed post card whether or now you will be present? Cordially yours, Carrie Chapman Catt President National American Woman Suffrage AssociationBranch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President National Headquarters, 171 Madison Avenue Telephone Ashland 6770 New York 1st Vice-President Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Mass. 2nd Vice-President Miss Mary Garrett Hay, New York 3rd Vice-President Mrs. Guilford Dudley, Tennessee 4th Vice-President Mrs. Raymond Brown, New York 5th Vice-President Mrs. Helen Gardener, Washington, D. C. Treasurer and Corresponding Sec'y Mrs. Frank J. Shuler, New York Recording Secretary Mrs. Halsey W. Wilson, New York Directors Mrs. Charles H. Brooks, Kansas Mrs. J. C. Cantrill, Kentucky Mrs. Richard E. Edwards, Indiana Mrs. George Gellhorn, Missouri Mrs. Ben Hooper, Wisconsin Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, Ohio Miss Esther G. Ogden, New York Mrs. George A. Piersol, Pennsylvania March 12, 1925, To the Executive Council of the National American Woman Suffrage Ass'n. When the meeting for the National American Woman Suffrage Association dissolution was called, it was our understanding that the two bequests (one of which is pending and due; the other, which will not be due until the death of the beneficiary now enjoying the interest from a trust fund) could be assigned. The amount of the bequest pending is owing by the National American Woman Suffrage Association to the Leslie Commission for a loan; the other may not be freed for a generation. We thought we had full authority to assign these two bequests. It now seems that this is not true, but everything else is complete for dissolution. We have concluded to go on with our meeting, but under no circumstances can it be called a dissolution meeting. It will be a reunion and a gala day. The Board of Officers must continue to be the National American Woman Suffrage Association, filling the vacancies which are sure to follow through death, incapacity, or resignation, by younger women who will carry it on until these bequests are paid. I am merely writing this letter to enclose a different call for the meeting and to request that no one will use the word dissolution in connection with the meeting. I note in the constitution that the Presidents of the Executive Board and members of State auxiliaries may appoint proxies and I urge all who cannot attend this luncheon to find among the delegates who will be attending the Richmond Convention some one who will represent them at the business meeting on the morning of April 23 and the pleasure luncheon afterwards. When and if such proxies may be found, please let us have the names, for we, of course, must know how many will be in attendance. All who desire to come and who will not, in their capacity as members of the Executive Council receive free tickets, may attend the luncheon by the purchase of tickets at the rate of $2.75. We will sell tickets in Washington also and open the luncheon to the public. Cordially yours, Carrie Chapman Catt President. CALL March 12, 1925. To the Executive Council of the National American Woman Suffrage Ass'n. We, the undersigned officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, hereby call the Executive Council to meet for the last time in Washington D.C., on Thursday, April 23, 1925, for the business of official business. thirty-four years ago (1890) the organization was created in that City, a union of the National and The American Woman Suffrage Association formed in 1869 and 1870 respectively, each the direct outgrowth of the scattered organizations preceding them and dating from the first woman's convention held in 1848. The dreams of those brave souls, who in 1848, shocked the world by their challenge, have been realized. That which was then pronounced the wild vagaries of unbalanced minds are today accepted as matters of fact, not only in our own country, but in half that nations of the world. The organization, which has "carried on" for seventy-six consecutive years, has completed its big tasks and has about completed the lesser ones. The business will occupy the morning of April 23rd and will be followed by a "Looking Backward" luncheon at which Council members will review the tedious struggle which never paused nor hesitated until the aim of the women on 1848 was written in the constitution. For old recollections' sake, come, comrades, to the last suffrage meeting that probably will ever convene in this country. President Carrie Chapman Catt Nettie R. Gruber Corresponding Secretary Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.