Mary Johnston, Miss Ellen Glasgow.
Vice-presidents: Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, Mrs. Louise Collier
Willcox, Mrs. C. V. Meredith, Mrs. T. Todd Dabney, Mrs. W. J. Adams,
Mrs. John H. Lewis, Miss Nannie Davis, Mrs. Stephen Putney, Mrs. Kate
Langley Bosher, Mrs. J. Allen Watts, Mrs. W. T. Yancey, Mrs. C. E.
Townsend, Mrs. W. W. King, Mrs. J. H. Whitner, Mrs Faith W. Morgan,
Mrs. Robert Barton; secretaries, Mrs. Alice M. Tyler, Miss Adele
Clark, Mrs. Grace H. Smithdeal, Miss Roberta Wellford, Miss Lucinda
Lee Terry; treasurers: Mrs. C. P. Cadot, Mrs. E. G. Kidd; auditors:
Mrs. John S. Munce, Mrs. Henry Aylett Sampson, Mrs. S. M. Block.

[193] By act of the General Assembly of 1918 women were admitted to
William and Mary College. They were admitted to the graduate and
professional schools of the University of Virginia by act of the Board
of Visitors in 1920.

[194] Miss Pidgeon was appointed by the National Association in
November, 1919, for organization to prepare for ratification of the
Federal Suffrage Amendment. After its defeat the next February she
continued until June 15, organizing citizenship schools throughout the
State. The expense to the association was $1,792.

[195] The next day, after Mrs. Catt had returned to New York, Harry
St. George Tucker appeared before the Legislature and ridiculed her
and her speech in the most insulting terms. In 1921 Mr. Tucker was a
candidate for Governor and was defeated at the primaries by Senator E.
Lee Trinkle, whose plurality was 40,000. He had been a strong
supporter of woman suffrage and his victory was attributed to the
women.

CHAPTER XLVI.

WASHINGTON.[196]

The period from 1900 to 1906 was one of inactivity in State suffrage
circles; then followed a vigorous continued campaign culminating in
the adoption of a constitutional amendment in 1910 granting to women
full political equality. This victory, so gratifying to the women of
Washington, had also an important national aspect, as it marked the
end of the dreary period of fourteen years following the Utah and
Idaho amendments in 1895-6, during which no State achieved woman
suffrage.

The Legislature of 1897 had submitted an amendment for which a
brilliant campaign was made by the Equal Suffrage Association under
the able leadership of its president, Mrs. Homer M. Hill of Seattle,
but it was defeated at the November election of 1898. The inevitable
reaction followed for some years. Three State presidents wer