Mary F. Thomas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary F. Thomas

American suffragette and physician

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1816

Place of Birth: Montgomery County, Maryland, United States

Date of Death: 19-Aug-1888

Profession: physician, suffragette, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Mary F.
Thomas (1816–1888) was a pioneer American woman physician, abolitionist, and temperance and women's rights leader who advocated for women, as well as those in need.
Born into a Quaker family, she grew up in Ohio and spent most of her life in Indiana.
Thomas was an active member of the women's suffrage movement and a founding member of the Woman's Rights Association of Indiana (established in 1852 and renamed the Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association in 1869), serving as a vice president and president of the Indiana organization.
In 1859 she became the first woman to present a petition before the Indiana General Assembly, calling for passage of laws to provide property rights for married women and a women's suffrage amendment to the Indiana Constitution.
At the national level she served a one-year term as president of the American Woman Suffrage Association.
In the mid-1850s she was a coeditor of Mary Birdsall's national woman's rights magazine, The Lily, and later an associate editor of the Mayflower with Lizzie Bunnel and a contributor to Woman's Journal.