Marietta Stow

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Marietta L. Stow

Marietta L. Stow (* 1830 or 1837 in Webster , New York ; † December 1902 ) was an American politician and suffragette . Among other things, she was the first candidate for the office of US Vice President in the presidential election of 1884 .

Life

After the death of her husband Joseph W. Stow in 1872, a California court denied her a claim to a fortune of $ 200,000. She then started a campaign in which she opposed the fact that the status of women depends on their position as a wife. Among other things, she wrote the book Probate Confiscation in this context . In 1880 she stood for the Greenback Party in the election of the director for the schools of San Francisco . In 1882 she ran unsuccessfully in the elections for governor of California for the Women's Independent Political Party . However, she only gained national fame when she ran for the Vice-Presidency of the Equal Rights Party in 1884 at the side of presidential candidate Belva Ann Lockwood .

Works

  • Unjust laws which govern women: Probate confiscation. 1876
  • Probate chaff, or, beautiful probate, or, three years probating in San Francisco. A modern drama, showing the merry side of a dark picture. 1879

literature

  • Reda Davis: Woman's Republic: The Life of Marietta Stow, Cooperator . Pt. Pinos Editions, 1969.
  • Reda Davis: California Women: A Guide to Their Politics, 1885-1911 . California Scene, San Francisco 1967.
  • Donna Schuele: In Her Own Way: Marietta Stow's Crusade for Probate Law Reform Within the Nineteenth-Century Women's Rights Movement. In: Yale Journal of Law and Feminism (1995) 7 (2), pp. 279-306 ( partly online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sherilyn Cox Bennion: Equal To The Occasion: Women Editors On The Nineteenth-Century West. University of Nevada Press, 1990, ISBN 0874171636 , p. 98 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Stow, Marietta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stow, Marietta L .; Stow, Marietta Lois Beers; Beers, Marietta Lois (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician and suffragette
DATE OF BIRTH 1830 or 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Webster , New York
DATE OF DEATH December 1902