Matilda Hall Gardner (1871–1954) was an American suffragist and a member of the national executive committee of the National Woman's Party. Life Gardner was born in Washington D.C. on December 31, 1871 to Frederick Hillsgrove Hall, editor of the Chicago Tribune, and Matilda L. Campbell. She attended school in Chicago, Paris, and Brussels, and attended and hosted society events in Chicago with her mother. On November 3, 1900, she married Harry "Dyke" Gilson Gardner, who was then a Washington correspondent for the Chicago Journal. He later worked as a Washington correspondent for the Scripps newspaper chain, with a circle of friends that included President Theodore Roosevelt. Gardner was a member of Washington high society, belonged to many clubs, and sat on many committees. She was involved in the arts, sitting on the executive committee of the Drama League and belonging to the National Folk-Craft Society. The Gardners were also active supporters of progressive politics. Matilda was an officer of the Committee for Progressive Political Action and strongly advocated for the founding of the Progressive Party. Gardner was brought to suffrage work through her activity with the Settlement house in the Southwestern part of Washington, the Neighborhood House. She became one of the original core of activists who worked with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns when they first came to Washington to work for the Congressional Committee. In 1913, she helped Paul organize the March 3 Woman Suffrage Procession and participated in the April 7 Capitol demonstration. She later before the Equal Suffrage Association of Glencoe, Maryland, where she predicted upcoming equal suffrage. In December 1913, Gardner was appointed chairman of a suffragist committee that was organizing testimony for a House suffrage hearing, and she was elected as a delegate to the next national convention of the State Equal Suffrage Association. In 1914, Gardner became a member of the national executive committee of the National Woman's Party, a position she would hold until at least 1921, when she participated in a conference with President Warren G. Harding to remove gender discrimination from federal laws. In 1915, she joined the NWP's press bureau. By the fall of 1914, Paul and Burns had brought Gardner onto the executive committee of the Congressional Union. Gardner played a key role in the 1915 First National Convention of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Gardner lobbied Congress for equal suffrage, even writing an article for The