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Anne Martin was president of the Nevada Women’s Civic League. She was the author of numerous newspaper and magazine articles on political and economic subjects and women’s equality. She was also the first state woman tennis champion.
Anne Henrietta Martin (September 30, 1875 – April 15, 1951) (pseudonym, Anne O'Hara; nickname, Little Governor Anne) was a suffragist, pacifist, and author from the state of Nevada. Her main achievement was taking charge of the state legislation that gave women of Nevada the right to vote.
Apr 24, 2024 · Anne Henrietta Martin (born Sept. 30, 1875, Empire City, Nev., U.S.—died April 15, 1951, Carmel, Calif.) was an American reformer who was an ardent feminist and pacifist in the early 20th century. Martin attended Whitaker’s School for Girls in Reno, Nevada, and the University of Nevada (B.A., 1894).
Aug 26, 2020 · Martin was a Nevada native who committed her life to advancing the fight for women’s rights. She served as the president of the Nevada Equal Franchise Society, and in her position of suffragist...
Nov 2, 2023 · Nov 2, 2023. 3 min read. Turn-of-The-Century Feminist: Anne Martin. Anne Martin, an internationally respected suffragette and the first woman to run for the U.S. Senate was lured to Carmel in 1921 by Mary Austin, a local poet and playwright who dreamed of turning Carmel into a center for progressive writers and artists.
Memoirs of Anne Martin _____ Nevada was the last of the Colorado River Basin States to enfranchise its women. With Montana it was the last of the States of the West to do so. Its equal suffrage campaign from 1912 to 1914 touched practically every inhabitant and created a new epoch in Nevada history. It evoked Nation-wide interest.
- Anne Martin of Reno, Nev., was a graduate of Stanford Univ. and professor of history at the Univ. of Nevada. She was president of the Nevada Woman's Civic League and led a successful fight for state suffrage in Nevada in 1914.
