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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 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.
Miss Anne Martin, of Reno, Nevada, legislative chairman of the National Woman's Party on behalf of the national suffrage amendment. Created / Published. [ca. 1917] Headings. - National Woman's Party. - Suffragists--United States--1910-1920. - Women--Suffrage--Nevada. - Martin, Anne, 1875-1951. - Photographs. - United States -- Nevada -- Reno. Genre
Based in Washington, D.C., from 1916 to 1918, she coordinated work in various congressional districts and organized pressure from the state level on national legislators. With the advent of World War I, Martin argued with U.S. senators that woman suffrage should be passed in order to allow women to respond to the war effort.
Born: Sept. 30, 1875. Died: April 15, 1951. Anne Henrietta Martin was born in Empire City. Her father was a member of the Nevada State Senate 1875-1879. He was involved in a mercantile store in Empire City, but moved the family to San Francisco in 1880 when the town declined.
