1. Catherine Mary Flanagan was an American suffragist affiliated with the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association and later the National Woman's Party.
10 Facts About Catherine Flanagan
1. 2.
Catherine Flanagan was among the Silent Sentinels arrested for protesting outside the White House in 1917.
3.
Catherine Mary Flanagan was born on August 19,1888, in Hartford, Connecticut, the second of seven children of Irish immigrant parents.
4.
Catherine Flanagan's father had moved to the US as a political exile after participating in the Irish Freedom movement, and following his death, she began work as a stenographer and as a bookkeeper at age 13.
5.
Catherine Flanagan became involved in the women's suffrage movement in the 1910s, and was hired as the secretary of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association in 1915.
6.
In 1917, Flanagan took vacation leave to travel to Washington, DC, to join the National Woman's Party in the Silent Sentinels protest outside the White House.
7.
Catherine Flanagan resigned from the CWSA and formally joined the NWP.
8.
Catherine Flanagan died August 3,1927, in Salt Lake City from complications of an ectopic pregnancy.
9.
Catherine Flanagan was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 2020.
10.
Catherine Flanagan is memorialized at the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial in Lorton, Virginia.