iation; vice-presidents: Mary E. Woolley, president of Mount
Holyoke College; Ellen F. Pendleton, president of Wellesley College;
Lucy M. Salmon, professor of history in Vassar College; Lillian Welch,
professor of physiology and hygiene in Goucher College (Baltimore);
Virginia C. Gildersleeve, dean of Barnard College (Columbia
University); Lois K. Mathews, dean of women in the University of
Wisconsin; Eva Johnston, dean of women in the University of Missouri;
Florence M. Fitch, dean of college women and professor of Biblical
literature, Oberlin College; Maud Wood Park, Boston; executive
secretary, Mrs. Ethel Puffer Howes, New York City; treasurer, Mrs.
Raymond B. Morgan, president Washington, D. C., Collegiate Alumnae.

ETHEL PUFFER HOWES, M. CAREY THOMAS,
Executive Secretary. President.

[143] The History is indebted for this sketch to Anne Webb (Mrs. O.
Edward) Janney, president of the Friends' Equal Rights Association and
superintendent of the department of equal rights of the Committee of
Philanthropic Labor of the Friends' General Conference.

[144] Detailed accounts of these conferences may be found in the
_Woman's Journal_ (Boston) of the dates following those on which they
were held.

[145] As this volume goes to press the U. S. Supreme Court on Feb. 27,
1922, rendered a unanimous adverse decision in both cases and declared
that the Federal Amendment had been legally ratified.

CHAPTER XXII.

THE LEAGUE OF WOMAN VOTERS.[146]

The League of Women Voters was first mentioned at the convention of
the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Washington, D. C.,
Dec. 12-15, 1917, when its president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
outlined a plan to unite the women of the equal suffrage States. She
suggested organization committees of five women in each, these
committees to be united in a central body known as the National League
of Women Voters. Upon the enfranchisement of its women each State
would automatically join the organization, which would provide a way
to retain suffrage associations for work on the Federal Amendment and
various reforms. It was voted that a committee be appointed to
undertake such a plan of organization. [Handbook of convention, page
48.]

The League of Women Voters was organized at the national convention in
St. Louis March 24-29, 1919, in commemoration of the Fiftieth
Anniversary of the first grant of suffrage on equal terms wi