r ceased its labors until the
year following the ratification of the Federal Woman Suffrage
Amendment.

Mrs. McLendon became an officer in 1892 and held official position
during the entire twenty-nine years. For thirteen years she was
vice-president or honorary president and for the remainder of the time
president of the association. Mrs. Thomas was second honorary
president for five years before her death in 1906. The following
served as presidents: Miss H. Augusta Howard, 1890-1895; Mrs. Frances
Cater Swift, 1895-1896; Mrs. Mary L. McLendon, 1896-1899; Mrs.
Gertrude C. Thomas, 1899-1901; Miss Katherine Koch, 1901-1904; Mrs.
Rose Y. Colvin, 1904-1906; Mrs. Mary L. McLendon, 1906-1921.[34]

In 1900 the same suffrage measures presented the year before were
again offered to the Legislature with the same barren result. The
Southern Chautauqua invited the association to hold an all day meeting
and also engaged Miss Frances A. Griffin of Alabama to lecture. F.
Henry Richardson, editor of the Atlanta _Journal_, and Lucian Knight,
editor of the Atlanta _Constitution_, brought the "woman's rights
movement" as prominently before the public as they were permitted to
do by the managers of those newspapers.

On Nov. 25, 26, 1901, the State convention was held in the
Universalist Church of Atlanta. Addresses were made by Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt, president of the National Association; Mrs. Thomas, Mrs.
Alice Daniels and Mrs. McLendon. The meeting adjourned early in the
afternoon to go to the Atlanta Women's Club room, where Mrs. Catt was
invited to address that body. The night meeting was held in the hall
of the House of Representatives, where Mrs. Catt, Mr. Richardson and
the Hon. Robert R. Hemphill of South Carolina addressed a large and
appreciative audience. The convention decided to employ a State
lecturer and organizer.

With but two exceptions State conventions or conferences were held
every year, always in Atlanta until 1919, in the Congregational and
Universalist churches, in the Grand Building, the hall of the
Federation of Labor, the Carnegie Library, the Hotel Ansley and the
Piedmont Hotel. The membership gradually increased, a series of
literary meetings in the winter of 1902 adding fifty names. This year
a committee was appointed to revise the charter of Atlanta and the
officers of the association appeared before it and asked that it
include Municipal suffrage for women. The sub-committee on franchises
recommende