Information Sheet

R1267
League of Women Voters (Joplin, Mo.)
Papers, 1919-1921.
One folder.

These are miscellaneous papers of the Joplin League of Women Voters. The papers include correspondence of the treasurer, Marjorie T. Wolcott, with the Missouri League of Women Voters, the National American Women Suffrage Association, the Republican National Committee, and the Democratic National Committee. The correspondence concerns contributions to the state League and expenses for local programs.

The earliest item in the papers is a bill from the Connor Hotel addressed to the “Suffrage League,” but by the end of 1919, presumably in anticipation of ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution in 1920, the group organized as the Joplin League of Women Voters and had allied itself with the statewide organization.

Mrs. Howard Gray was president of the Joplin League during the period represented by the papers. The Joplin League counted members from other Jasper County towns including Carthage and Webb City. Marjorie T. Wolcott, the Joplin League’s treasurer, was a resident of Webb City. She was succeeded by Mrs. William C. (Juanita) Porter in 1921.

Speakers included Marie Ames and Edna Fischel Gellhorn of the Missouri League of Women Voters, Elizabeth Bass of the Woman’s Bureau of the Democratic National Committee, a Miss Stewart of the Republican National Committee, and Isidor Loeb, a professor of political science and constitutional law at the University of Missouri.

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