JULIA WARD HOWE, best known for authoring the poem, “the Battle Hymn of the Republic”, was a prolific writer, a leader in the suffrage movement and a respected lecturer. She helped organize the New England Woman’s Club in 1868 and served as President of the MA Federation of Women’s Clubs.

ELLEN DEMOREST helped revolutionize the fashion industry in the 1860s with the invention and mass-production of her paper dress making patterns. She owned a successful dress making shop in New York City as well as popular magazine, and was a founding member of Sorosis.

JANE ADDAMS founded Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago, which serviced as a model for the social reform movement of the Progressive Era. She was a vocal advocate for working women and child labor laws. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 and was an active member of the Chicago Woman’s Club.

JULIA LATHROP was the first person appointed by President Taft to head the Federal Children’s Bureau that was created in 1912. As a member of the Chicago Woman’s Club, she assisted the club in working for juvenile court laws.

NELLIE TAYLOE ROSS became the first female governor when she was inaugurated in Wyoming in 1924. She was a member of the Woman’s Club of Cheyenne and served as the first female Director of the U.S. Mint.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT was a First Lady, social reformer, columnist, teacher, political activist and member of the Chautauqua Woman’s Club in New York. She was a tireless advocate for the poor and disadvantaged, and exercise her influence as a speaker and writer.

BERTHA ETHEL KNIGHT LANDES was elected the first woman mayor of a mayor city (Seattle) in 1926. She had previously served as president of the city council and president of the Seattle City Federation of Women’s Clubs.

ELLEN S. WOODWARD was appointed by President Roosevelt n 1938 to the three-member Social Security Board, on which she administered the programs of the Social Securities Act. She was an active member of the Mississippi Federation of Women’s Clubs, elected to the state legislature in 1925, and the second woman to serve in the House of Representatives.