e elected,
Dr. Nina Jolidon Croake of Tacoma, 1900-1902, elected at the Seattle
convention; Dr. Luema Greene Johnson of Tacoma, 1902-1904, elected at
the Tacoma convention; Dr. Fannie Leake Cummings of Seattle,
1904-1906, elected at a meeting in Puyallup at which only five persons
were present, the small suffrage club here being the only one
surviving in the State. Dr. Cummings, aided by Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer
Spinning of Puyallup, State treasurer for many years, and Mrs. Ellen
S. Leckenby of Seattle, State secretary, kept the suffrage torch from
being extinguished. Mrs. Leckenby held office continuously throughout
twelve years.

The revival of interest plainly seen after 1906 was due to the impetus
given through the initiative of Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe, who with her
husband, John Henry DeVoe, had recently come from Harvey, Ills., and
established a new home. Mrs. DeVoe was a life-long suffrage worker
who had served many years in many States with Susan B. Anthony and
also was a national organizer. She began by calling on individual
suffragists and suggesting that Washington was a hopeful State for a
campaign and aroused so much interest that in November a large and
enthusiastic convention met at Seattle. Dr. Cummings presided and
inspiring addresses were given by A. W. McIntyre of Everett, formerly
Governor of Colorado; Miss Ida Agnes Baker of the Bellingham State
Normal School; Miss Adella M. Parker of the Seattle Broadway High
School and Professor J. Allen Smith of the University of Washington.
Mrs. DeVoe was elected president.

Conventions were held at Seattle in 1907, 1908 and 1909, Mrs. DeVoe
being re-elected each time. By June, 1909, there were 2,000 paid
members of the State association and afterwards, many thousands of men
and women were enrolled. The executive committee decided upon a
campaign to amend the State constitution for woman suffrage and Mrs.
DeVoe was made manager and given authority to conduct it according to
her own judgment. No other convention or executive committee meeting
was held, only frequent informal conferences, until after the vote was
taken on November 8, 1910. The final executive committee meeting was
held at Seattle in January, 1911, when it was voted to continue the
association until all bills were paid and then disband. It was decided
to present the large silken banner "Votes for Women" to the next State
having a campaign and it went to California the following year. The
unfinished b