Anna Howard Shaw, American Suffragette and Methodist Minister
Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 - July 2, 1919) was a suffragette, physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. In 1880, after she was refused ordination by the Methodist Episcopal Church, she achieved ordination in the Methodist Protestant Church. Following her ordination, Shaw received an MD from Boston University in 1886. During her time in medical school, she became an outspoken advocate of political rights for women. chair of the Franchise Department of Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). In 1888, Shaw attended the first meeting of the International Council of Women. Susan B. Anthony encouraged her to join the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). Beginning in 1904 and for the next eleven years, Shaw was the president of NAWSA. Under her leadership, NAWSA continued to lobby for a national constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote. In 1915, she resigned as NAWSA president and was replaced by her ally Carrie Chapman Catt. During WWI, Shaw was head of the Women's Committee of the United States Council of National Defense, for which she became the first woman to earn the Distinguished Service Medal. Shaw died of pneumonia, at the age of 72, only a few months before Congress ratified the 19th Amendment. Harris & Ewing, 1914.
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