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Madeline (Madge) McDowell Breckinridge (May 20, 1872 – November 25, 1920) was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement in Kentucky. She married Desha Breckinridge, editor of the Lexington Herald, which advocated women's rights, and she lived to see the women of Kentucky vote for the first time in the presidential ...
16 de may. de 2024 · Madeline McDowell Breckinridge was an American social reformer whose efforts focused on child welfare, health issues, and women’s rights. She was educated in Lexington, Kentucky, and at Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Connecticut, and studied intermittently during 1890–94 at the State College.
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23 de mar. de 2009 · Preeminent Kentucky reformer and women's rights advocate Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920) was at the forefront of social change during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Breckinridge had a remarkably varied activist career that included roles in the promotion of public health, education, women's rights ...
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (May 20, 1872 – November 25, 1920) was an American reformer and social activist, leader of the women's suffrage movement and one of Kentucky 's leading Progressive reformers. Breckinridge also lobbied for women’s voting in Kentucky school board elections, and helped create a state library along with many other ...
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge was a remarkable woman. The well-bred daughter of one of Kentucky's first families, she grew up to be not a pampered southern belle but a prominent social reformer. In her tragically short life (1872-1920), she worked tirelessly to advance child welfare, woman suffrage, public education, recreational facilities ...
Kentucky Suffrage Leader - Madeline McDowell Breckinridge saw woman suffrage as a way to advance social reform. Served as pres. of Ky. Equal Rights Assoc. 1912-15 and 1919-20; vice pres. of National American Woman Suffrage Assoc., 1913-15. Ratification of 19th amendment by Ky. legislature, 1920, largely credited to her efforts.
Preeminent Kentucky reformer and women's rights advocate Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872--1920) was at the forefront of social change during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
