Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)

1. 1859, Jan. 9

   Born, Ripon, Wisconsin

2. 1880

   Graduated from Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University), Ames, Iowa

3. 1883-1884

   Superintendent of schools, Mason City, Iowa

4. 1884

   Married Lee Chapman (died 1886), newspaper editor and publisher

5. 1890

   Married engineer George Catt (died October 1905)
   
   Delegate to National American Woman Suffrage Association

6. 1890-1900

   Worked with organization committee, National American Woman Suffrage Association

7. 1900-1904

   President, National American Woman Suffrage Association

8. 1900-1920

   Worked for woman suffrage through an amendment to the U.S. Constitution

9. 1904-1923

   President, International Woman Suffrage Alliance

10. 1911-1912

    Made world tour for the suffrage cause

11. 1915-1920

    Returned to the United States and resumed as president, National
    American Woman Suffrage Association

12. 1915

    Organized Woman's Peace Party with Jane Addams

13. 1916

    Devised "Winning Plan" to campaign for suffrage on federal and state levels

14. 1919

    Helped found the National League of Women Voters

15. 1923

    Published with Nettie Rogers Shuler Woman Suffrage and Politics (New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 504 pp.)

16. 1923-1947

    Devoted herself chiefly to the peace movement

17. 1925-1932

    Helped organize and served as chairman, National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War

18. 1928

    Death of longtime partner Mary "Mollie" Garrett Hay, with whom Catt lived intermittently before George Catt's death in 1905 and thereafter shared a permanent home

19. 1947, Mar. 9

    Died, New Rochelle, New York