Sarah Platt Decker

Sarah Platt Decker
Women’s Club Leader
1856-1912
INDUCTED 1990

Sarah Platt Decker drew upon her experience in social welfare to help unemployed miners victimized by the economy, and at the same time vigorously campaigned for women’s right to vote in a year of economic depression in 1893 — The year women in Colorado earned the right to vote.

As the women’s club movement calling for social reforms swept across the country, she organized and led the Denver’s Women Club in 1898, then won the presidency of General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Her work was cut short at age 56 when she died from long time health problems.

“Never frown, never sigh and keep step!” —Sarah Platt Decker