Anna Laurens Dawes
American author and suffragist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anna Laurens Dawes (May 14, 1851 – September 25, 1938) was an American author and anti-suffragist.[1] She was the daughter of Henry Laurens Dawes (October 30, 1816 – February 5, 1903), a Republican United States Senator and Representative of Massachusetts.[2]
Anna Laurens Dawes | |
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Born | (1851-05-14)May 14, 1851 North Adams Massachusetts |
Died | (1938-09-25)September 25, 1938 |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Education | High school |
Alma mater | Maplewood Institute, Abbot Academy |
Notable works | How We are Governed (1885) The Modern Jew: His Present and his Future (1886) A United States Prison An Unknown Nation (1888) Charles Sumner (1892) The Indian as Citizen (1917) |
Dawes created the Wednesday Morning Club in 1879 and was its president for sixty years. She later became a trustee of Smith College (1889–1896). In 1883, she secured governmental aid for the Leif exposition to search for Major General A. W. Greely, who had been missing in the Arctic for three years.[3] Dawes served on the board of the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1892–1894, as well as the St. Louis Exposition of 1902–1904.[2]
Notable works include How We are Governed (1885), The Modern Jew: His Present and his Future (1886), A United States Prison (1886), An Unknown Nation (1888), Charles Sumner (1892), and The Indian as Citizen (1917).[4]