Frances E. Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898. Her influence continued in the next decades, as the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were adopted.
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- Born in
- Churchville
- Educated at
- Milwaukee-Downer College
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- 🏆 National Women's Hall of Fame
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1839
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Birth1898
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