Anne henrietta martin biography

Anne Henrietta Martin
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Born	()September 30, Empire City, Nevada, US[1]
Died	April 15, () (aged&#;75) Carmel, California, US
Pen name	Anne O'Hara
Occupation	Suffragist, pacifist, author
Education	Bishop Whitaker's School for Girls
Alma&#;mater

Anne Henrietta Martin (September 30, – April 15, ) (pseudonym, Anne O'Hara; nickname, Little Governor Anne) was a suffragist, pacifist, and author from the state of Nevada.^[2] Her main achievement was taking charge of the state legislation that gave women of Nevada the right to vote.

Anne henrietta martin biography book Instead, Anne enrolled in Nevada State University, where she tested as a sophomore. Encyclopedia of Nevada. In , she founded the University of Nevada history department and was its head until She was the first female member of the Nevada Educational Survey Commission in

She was the first head of the department of history of the University of Nevada (–) and was active in the suffrage movement in England in –, working with Emmeline Pankhurst. She was president of the Nevada equal franchise society in , and the first national chairman of the National Woman's Party in She was the first woman to run for the United States Senate; She lost twice, in and ^[3][4]

Early years

Martin was the daughter of William O'Hara Martin, of Irish descent, who served as a Nevada State Senator,^[2] and her mother, Louise Stadtmuller Martin, was Bavarian.

She attended Bishop Whitaker's School for Girls in Reno. Anne attended the University of Nevada (–), where she earned a degree in History. She earned a second B.A. in and an M.A. in History in from Stanford University.^[5]

Career

In , Martin established the University of Nevada's department of history.

After two years in the department, she left to study at Columbia University, Chase's Art School, University of London, and University of Leipzig; but returned to the department in –^[3] During her leave from the university, Martin recommended the Board of Regents replace her with Jeanne Wier, a friend of hers from Stanford who was just finishing her degree.^[6]

Martin returned from Europe in to attend her father's funeral.

Her father's death gave her a revelation, "suddenly made a feminist of me!

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. . . I found that I stood alone in my family against a man-controlled world." Martin traveled in Europe and Asia and experienced the women's revolution in England between and , she became a Fabian Socialist, and wrote short stories and political articles, occasionally under the pen name of Anne O'Hara. Martin was arrested in over an issue of trying to enfranchise British women.

Anne henrietta martin biography husband: Martin, C. Returning home, she was elected president of the state suffragists and successfully led the movement for Nevada women to win the vote Martin, Brian Retrieved January 09, from Encyclopedia.

Her friend from Stanford, Lou Henry Hoover, sent husband, Herbert Hoover, to pay Martin's bail, but Frederick Pethick-Lawrence had already taken care of that.^[2]

After returning to Nevada in the fall of , she became president of the Nevada Equal Franchise Society in February and organized a campaign over sparsely populated deserts that convinced male voters to enfranchise women on November 3, This success led to her representation of the national movement as a speaker and executive committee member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the Congressional Union.

Martin helped organize voting women in the West in to challenge Democrats. She was one of the Silent Sentinels, National Woman's Party women who picketed for suffrage in front of the White House on July 14, ; as a result, she was sentenced to Occoquan Workhouse, but was pardoned less than a week later by President Woodrow Wilson.

In , representing Nevada, Martin was the first American woman to run for the US Senate.^[3][7] Martin's campaigns focused on illuminating how women could act as a positive influence in the political world.

Her platforms focused on providing better working conditions for men and women and nationalization of railroads and public utilities alienated women suffragists. Between her and campaigns Martin wrote a series of articles and essays and in these essays Martin urges women to form autonomous political organizations.

Anne henrietta martin biography Archived from the original on 25 February Martin, Charles James. Instead, Anne enrolled in Nevada State University, where she tested as a sophomore. She was one of the Silent Sentinels , National Woman's Party women who picketed for suffrage in front of the White House on July 14, ; as a result, she was sentenced to Occoquan Workhouse , but was pardoned less than a week later by President Woodrow Wilson.

Martin moved to Carmel, California, in , and recuperated from a heart attack in ^[2] In , she received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Nevada. She also wrote two articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, one on Josephine Butler in the edition, and one on white slavery for the edition.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Anne Henrietta Martin died in Carmel, California in

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References

Further reading

External links

• Anne Henrietta Martin Papers BANC MSS P-G Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
• Anne Martin campaign literature, Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno
• When darkness covers me, NC Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno.

  Manuscript of poem written by Martin in