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Fannie Humphreys Gaffney (1858-1945)[1] was an American suffragist, activist, and President of the National Council of Women of the United States.[2][3]
Life
[edit]She was a graduate of the Women's Law College.[3]
She married Thomas St. John Gaffney.[4][5]
Gaffney was elected President of the National Council of Women in 1899.[2] At the time, she was the youngest woman to have held the office.[3] Her profile in the Congress handbook noted that she was also "President of the Society for Political Study, Member of the Society of Authors, the Professional Woman's League, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union".[3] She was also a life member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.[6]
She later became the Council's Honorary President.[7]
Quoted in Views on Religion as saying "I believe there is a growing tendency among mankind towards a lack of faith in any religious system" and that "Our churches are mostly Med with women as they always have been."[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "TR Center - ImageViewer: Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George von Lengerke Meyer". www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
- ^ a b "WOMEN'S COUNCIL ELECTION: Mrs. Fanny Humphrey Gaffney of New York Chosen President". The New York Times. 16 February 1899. p. 2.
- ^ a b c d "Harvard Mirador Viewer: International Congress of Women, London, 1899". iiif.lib.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
- ^ The Mirror 1905-03-02: Vol 15 Iss 3. Internet Archive. Out-of-copyright. 1905-03-02.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Breaking the silence : England, Ireland, Wilson and the war : Thomas St. John Gaffney : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
- ^ National American Woman Suffrage Association; Upton, Harriet Taylor; Shuler, Nettie Rogers (1800). Handbook... and proceedings of the... annual convention. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Washington : [s.n.]
- ^ Flower, B.O. (1906). Arena magazine.
- ^ Noyes, Rufus King (1906). Views of religion. Cornell University Library. Boston, Mass. : L.K. Washburn.