Anna Laurens Dawes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anna Laurens Dawes

American author and suffragist

Date of Birth: 14-May-1851

Place of Birth: North Adams, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 25-Sep-1938

Profession: writer, suffragette, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Anna Laurens Dawes (May 14, 1851 – September 25, 1938) was an American author and suffragist.
She was the daughter of Henry Laurens Dawes (October 30, 1816- February 5, 1903), a Republican United States Senator and Representative of Massachusetts.Dawes created the Wednesday Morning Club in 1879 and was its president for sixty years.
She later became a trustee of Smith College (1889-1896).
In 1883, she secured governmental aid for the Leif exposition to search for Major General A.
W.
Greely, who had been missing in the Arctic for three years.
She was also the vice-president of the Massachusetts State Suffrage Society.
Dawes served on the board of the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1892-1894, as well as the St.
Louis Exposition of 1902-1904.Notable works include How We are Governed (1885), The Modern Jew: His Present and his Future (1886), A United States Prison (1886), An Unknown Nation (1888), Charles Sumner (1892), and The Indian as Citizen (1917).