temperance reformer; secretary of the California state suffrage association Mamie Shields Pyle (1866–1949) – suffrage leader in South Dakota Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973) – first U.S. female member of Congress (R) Montana. Rankin opened congressional debate on a Constitutional amendment granting universal suffrage to women, and voted for the resolution in 1919, which would become the 19th Amendment. Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector (1882–1973) – first licensed female architect in the state of Ohio and the only female architect practicing in central Ohio between 1900 and 1930 Harriet Redmond (c. 1862–1952) – Oregon suffragist Rebecca Hourwich Reyher (1897–1987) – author and lecturer Naomi Sewell Richardson (1892–1993) - African-American suffragist and educator Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861–1943) – African-American civil rights activist, suffragist, teacher, writer, and editor from Boston Emma Winner Rogers (1855–1922) – treasurer, National American Woman Suffrage Association; also writer, speaker Joy Young Rogers (1891–1953) – assistant editor of the Suffragist Ellen Alida Rose (born 1843) – Wisconsin agriculturist, suffragist Juliet Barrett Rublee (1875–1966) – birth control advocate, suffragist, and film producer Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924) – African-American publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor Ruth Logan Roberts (1891–1968) – suffragist, activist, YWCA leader, and host of a salon in Harlem Nina Samorodin (1892–1981) – Russian-born NWP member, executive secretary of National Labor Alliance for Trade Relations with and Recognition of Russia, secretary of Women's Trade-Union League Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) – birth control activist, sex educator, nurse, established Planned Parenthood Federation of America Annie Nowlin Savery (1831–1891) – English-born Iowa suffragist active from the 1860s Julia Sears (1840–1929) – pioneering academic and first woman in the US to head a public college, now Minnesota State University Florida Scott-Maxwell (1883–1979) – author May Wright Sewall (1844–1920) – chairperson of the National Woman's Suffrage Association's executive committee from 1882 to 1890 Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck (1850–1937), president of the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) – president of National Women's Suffrage Association from 1904 to 1915 Mary Shaw (1854–1929) – early feminist, playwright and actress Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841–1917) – co-founder and first president of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government Lurana W. Sheldon (1862–1945) – writer, editor, suffragist Nettie Rogers Shuler (1862–1939) – writer, suffragist Katherine Call Simonds (1865–1946) – musician, author, suffragist Abby Hadassah Smith (1797–1879) – early American suffragist from Connecticut who campaigned for property and voting rights Eliza Kennedy Smith, also known