Frances E. Willard
Frances Elizabeth Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women’s suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution.
Willard became the national president of Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879, and remained president until her death in 1898.
- Date of birth:
- 28th September, 1839
- Date of death:
- 17th February, 1898