Mary Morris Hall Lockwood
Born
Mary Morris Hall

(1871-02-28)February 28, 1871
DiedApril 19, 1936(1936-04-19) (aged 65)
Arlington, Virginia
NationalityAmerican
OccupationSuffragist

Mary Morris Hall Lockwood (1871 – 1936) was an American suffragist.

Biography

Lockwood née Hall was born on February 28, 1871. In 1889 she married Henry Lockwood with whom she had two children, one dying in infancy.[1][2] The couple settled in Arlington County, Virginia (then part of Alexandria County, Virginia).[3]

In 1912 Lockwood founded the local branch of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia which worked towards including suffrage in the Virginia state constitution,[4] but by the next year she had joined the newly formed Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CU) which was pursuing an amendment to the federal constitution.[5] From 1913 to 1914 she served as treasurer of the CU.[3] Lockwood marched in the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C. By 1916 the CU had become the National Woman's Party. In 1917 Lockwood was arrested for picketing outside the White House with the Silent Sentinels. She was successful in appealing her sentence.[1]

After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 Townsend ran an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates.[1]

Townsend was active in the General Federation of Women's Clubs, founding the Arlington County Federation of Women's Clubs in 1920, and serving a term as president Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs.[1]

Townsend died on April 19, 1936, in Arlington.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Mary Morris Hall Lockwood Biography". Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  2. ↑ Garrett, William Robertson; Bass, John M.; Goodpasture, Albert Virgil (1899). The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly ... A. V. and W. H. Goodpasture.
  3. 1 2 "Mary Lockwood (1871 to 1936)". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  4. ↑ Beer, Janet; Ford, Anne-Marie; Joslin, Katherine; Trudgill, Anne (28 November 2002). American Feminism: Key Source Documents, 1848-1920. Psychology Press. p. 366. ISBN 978-0-415-21945-7.
  5. ↑ Batson, Brent Tarter, Marianne E. Julienne & Barbara C. (2020). Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia, The. Arcadia Publishing. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-4671-4419-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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