Letter, Lillian Feickert to Florence Eagleton

This letter from New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA) President Lillian Feickert to the organization's Vice President Florence P. Eagleton shows that New Jersey women were astute lobbyists during the suffrage campaign. In September 1918, the federal suffrage amendment was up for a vote in the U.S. Senate. New Jersey Senator David Baird was anti-suffrage, while Senator Joseph Frelinghuysen was pro-suffrage, but as the letter states was "rather a touchy man." In the event, the amendment lost due to Baird's negative vote, although it would later pass.

New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association Records, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries

9/19/1918

Fernanda Perrone

Letter from Lillian Feickert to Florence P. Eagleton, September 19, 1918.