20 Facts About Mabel Vernon

Mabel Vernon was an American suffragist, pacifist, and a national leader in the United States suffrage movement.

Mabel Vernon was a Quaker and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Mabel Vernon was one of the principal members of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage alongside Olympia Brown, Inez Milholland, Crystal Eastman, Lucy Burns, and Alice Paul, and helped to organize the Silent Sentinels protests that involved daily picketing of Woodrow Wilson's White House.

Mabel Vernon was born on September 19,1883, in Wilmington, Delaware, to George Washington Vernon an editor and publisher of the Wilmington Daily Republican, and Mary Vernon, nee Hooton.

Mabel Vernon went on to attend Swarthmore College where she was a year ahead of Alice Paul.

Mabel Vernon then became a teacher at Radnor High School in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where she taught Latin and German.

Mabel Vernon attended the 1912 convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, where she was an usher.

Mabel Vernon was the first paid organizer that Alice Paul recruited.

Mabel Vernon joined Lucy Burns and Paul as part of NAWSA's Congressional Committee to organize the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 that was to occur the following March where it would coincide with the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson.

In 1914, Mabel Vernon organized for the Congressional Union, travelling through the Southwestern United States and making her way north through California before arriving in Nevada.

Late in 1915, Sara Bard Field drove a petition with 500,000 signatures supporting the 19th Amendment across the United States to be presented to President Woodrow Wilson in Washington, DC Along the route, Mabel Vernon acted as an organizing advance woman, preparing dignitaries, press, and women groups in over 100 communities to welcome the tour and sign the petition.

Mabel Vernon was a key organizer of the campaign of the Silent Sentinels that began on January 10,1917.

Mabel Vernon was responsible for ensuring that there were enough volunteers each day to picket the White House.

At a convention in late 1917, Mabel Vernon identified the most significant impacts of the picketing.

Mabel Vernon went to Columbia University where she earned a master's degree in political science in 1924.

In 1930, Mabel Vernon turned her attention from the women's movement to focus on international relations and peace.

Mabel Vernon was a proponent of Latin American rights and disarmament.

Mabel Vernon joined the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1930.

Mabel Vernon was director of the Peoples Mandate Committee for Inter-American Peace and Cooperation in the 1940s.

Mabel Vernon was a member of the Inter-American delegation to the foundation of the United Nations.