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Suffragist; Associate Editor of Votes For Women; President of the College Woman's Equal Suffrage League; editor of Western Woman Voter
Adella
Parker
born:
1870
died:
1956
county: King
Adella M. Parker, as president of the Washington Branch of the College Women's Equal Suffrage league, helped organize the efforts of college women to gain the privilege of the ballot for women in Washington state. Ms. Parker worked as a journalist during the Suffrage Campaign of 1910, writing articles for Votes For women, the official organ of the Washington Equal suffrage Association, and organizing women's actions on the local level throughout the state. She later married Charles Enoch Allen Bennett in 1920 and lived in Russia for a time. She retrurned to Seattle and wrote for the Seattle Union Record and became part of the ACLU. She later served in the Washington State Legislature from 1935 to 1937. She later bought the Roosevelt American in 1945. She died in 1956 in Seattle.
Resources:
- Gary Geiger, Adele Parker: The Case Study of a Woman in the Progressive ERA, Thesis, Western Washington University, 1979.
Emma Smith DeVoe Papers
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