idge, State organizer.[2]

The following delegates were appointed to attend the national
convention in Philadelphia in November; Mrs. Jacobs, Miss Amelia
Worthington, Mrs. O. R. Hundley, Mrs. DuBose, Miss Partridge, Mrs.
Chappel Cory. The new State organization affiliated at once with the
National Association.

The first annual convention was held in Selma Jan. 29, 1913, with
twenty-five representatives from Selma, Birmingham, Huntsville and
Montgomery. Mrs. Jacobs was re-elected president and a splendid
program of constructive work was outlined for the ensuing year. The
association was represented at the meeting of the International
Suffrage Alliance held in Budapest in June of this year by Mrs. T. G.
Bush of Birmingham.

The second State convention, held in Huntsville Feb. 5, 1914, was made
notable by the inspiring presence of three of Alabama's pioneer
suffragists--Mrs. Annie Buel Drake Robertson, Mrs. Humes, and Mrs.
Virginia Clay Clopton. The following local societies were represented
by their presidents, named in the order in which they were organized:
Selma, Mrs. Parke; Birmingham, Mrs. Hundley; Montgomery, Mrs. Sallie
B. Powell; Huntsville, Mrs. Clopton; Cullman, Mrs. Ignatius Pollak;
Greensboro, Miss S. Anne Hobson; Tuscaloosa, Mrs. Losey; Vinemont,
Miss Mary Munson; Pell City, Miss Pearl Still; Coal City, Mrs. J. W.
Moore; Mobile, Miss Eugenie Marks. Mrs. Jacobs was re-elected despite
her wish to retire from office and her report of the past year told of
a great amount of work done by all the members of the board.

In January, 1915, a resolution to submit a woman suffrage amendment
to the State constitution to the voters was for the first time
introduced in the Legislature. It was referred to the Committee on
Privileges and Elections in the House and the Legislature afterwards
adjourned until July. In the meantime the women worked to secure
pledges from the members of the committee to report the bill favorably
and 14 of the 16 gave their promise to do so. Instead of this it was
"postponed indefinitely." The women did not rest until they persuaded
the House to compel a report and then a hearing was granted to them.
Among those who worked in the Legislature were the legislative
chairman, Mrs. O. R. Hundley; Mrs. Jacobs, the State president; Mrs.
Chappel Cory, president United Daughters of the Confederacy; Miss
Mollie Dowd, representing the wage earners, and Miss Lavinia Engle of
Maryland, field organizer fo