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Tuesday, November 08, 2005
This Day in Republican History 11/08/05
November 8, 1840
Birth of Judith Ellen Foster; addressing the 1892 Republican National Convention, she declared: “We are here to help you, and we have come to stay”
Foster was proclaimed by the Republican National Committee as the mother of organized Republican women. Before she died in 1910 Foster campaigned throughout the country for Republican candidates and helped local women organize Republican women's clubs in many states, even though women could only vote in a few of them.
Not until 1912 would the national Democratic Party make a serious effort to organize women, even in the six states where they could vote for President. By then, the legacy of Iowan J. Ellen Foster was that Republican women in many more states were experienced campaign workers.
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