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League of Women Voters

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League of Women Voters, nonpartisan American political organization that has pursued its mission of promoting active and unhampered participation in government since its establishment in 1920. First proposed by Carrie Chapman Catt at a convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1917, the League was organized at a national convention on March 24–29, 1919, in St. Louis, Missouri, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first suffrage grant. Following the adoption of...

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