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Charlotte Woodward Pierce

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The Resume

    (January 14, 1830-March 15, 1924)
    Born in Waterloo, New York
    American Suffragist
    Member of the Association for the Advancement of Women
    Worked with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    Signer of The Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
    Only signer of the document to live to see the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920

Why she might be annoying:

    She was unable to vote in the 1920 Presidential election, due to her ailing health, despite having spent fifty plus years advocating for it.
    She publicly opposed Alice Paul and her creation of the National Woman's Party.
    As of March 2023, her Wikipedia page lists her nationality as ‘Nigerian’ and her occupation as ‘Stripper’ (um….?).

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen before becoming an independent seamstress.
    She was nineteen when she traveled by wagon to participate in the Seneca Falls Convention.
    She was motivated to work for women's rights after she learned that all the wages she earned from sewing leather gloves went to her employer in exchange for her living arrangements, rather than for her to spend independently.
    She was among the youngest of the 68 women who signed the Declaration calling for women’s suffrage and traveled the farthest to get to the Convention.
    She opposed the NWP because she believed that women should join existing political parties instead of consolidating their votes together in their own party.
    She did, however, gift the Party with a personally inscribed plaque to symbolize the continued struggle for women's rights in 1921.

Credit: BoyWithTheGreenHair


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying