Anna Ella Carroll (August 29, 1815 – February 19, 1894) was an American woman politician, pamphleteer and lobbyist.
She was born in to a very wealthy and prominent family in her state and city: her great-grandfather was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the last surviving signers and a delegate to the Second Continental Congress and later in the new Congress of the United States, her father was the Governor of Maryland from 1830-1831, and her mother was the daughter of a Baltimore physician.
She was also the eldest of eight children.
She played a significant role as an adviser to the Lincoln presidential cabinet during the American Civil War (1861-1865).
She also wrote many pamphlets criticizing slavery.