Ellis Meredith
Journalist, Suffragist
1865 - 1955
INDUCTED 2018
Ellis Meredith, an accomplished journalist who led Colorado’s suffrage movement, was widely known as the “Susan B. Anthony of Colorado.”
Meredith and her parents made significant contributions to Colorado. Her mother was a suffragist and her father was an editor for the Rocky Mountain News. In 1889, Meredith began writing a column for the News, titled “A Woman’s World.” She became the first Colorado woman to cover the State Legislature in 1894. Meredith testified in 1904 before the U.S. House of Representatives in support of a Constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote.
“If Colorado goes for woman suffrage, you may count on a landslide in that direction throughout the West.”— Ellis Meredith
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