run for Senate Ellen A. Martin (1847–1916) – first woman to successful cast a vote in Illinois in 1891, under a loophole in the local law Jennie McCowen (1845–1924) – physician, writer, lecturer, medical journal editor, suffragist Catharine Waugh McCulloch(1862–1945) – Chicago lawyer, active in the Illinois 1913 effort and legal adviser for the National American Woman Suffrage Association Mary A. McCurdy (1852–1934) – African American suffragist Mary Ann M'Clintock (1800–1884) – suffragist who helped plan the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention Thomas M'Clintock (1792–1876) – abolitionist and suffragist, husband of Mary Ann M'Clintock Nell Mercer (1893–1979) – member of the Silent Sentinels Ellis Meredith (1865–1955) – journalist Jane Hungerford Milbank (1871–1931) – author and poet Inez Milholland (1886–1916) – key participant in the National Woman's Party and the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 Lucy Kennedy Miller, also known as Mrs. John O. Miller (1880–1962) – first president of the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters, and "the woman to whom, more than to any other" was "owe[d] the triumph of" women's suffrage in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Harriet May Mills (1857–1936) – prominent civil rights leader, played a major role in women's rights movement Abby Crawford Milton (1881–1991) – traveled throughout Tennessee making speeches and organizing suffrage leagues in small communities; in 1920, she, along with Anne Dallas Dudley and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution Virginia Minor (1824–1894) – co-founder and president of the Woman's Suffrage Association of Missouri; unsuccessfully argued in Minor v. Happersett (1874 Supreme Court case) that the Fourteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote Zeola Hershey Misener (1878–1966) – Indiana suffragist and politician Lilla Day Monroe (1858–1929) – Kansas suffragist, lawyer J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) – zoologist, philosopher, educator and socialist Mary L. Moreland (1859–1918) – minister, evangelist, suffragist, author Esther Hobart Morris (1814–1902) – first female Justice of the Peace in the United States Mary Foulke Morrisson (1879–1971) – organizer of 1916 suffrage parade in Chicago at the Republican national Convention; founder of chapters of the League of Women Voters Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) – Quaker, abolitionist; women's rights activist; social reformer Martha H. Mowry (1818–1899) – Rhode Island physician and suffragist Ella Uphay Mowry (1865–1923) – Kansas suffragist and the first female gubernatorial candidate in Kansas Frances Lillian Willard "Fannie" Munds (1866–1948) – leader of the suffrage movement in Arizona and