East Tennessee

• Febb Burn (1873-1945) – a quiet, well read woman from Niota who pushed the suffrage victory over the top when she successfully urged her son, to stand up for suffrage in the Tennessee House. He followed her advice, securing a last-minute crucial victory for the cause.
• Representative Harry T. Burn (1895-1977) – the youngest member of the Tennessee legislature was torn between his feeling that he should do what he thought his constituents wanted and what he felt to be fair and appropriate. Throughout the special session on ratification he wore an anti- suffrage symbol, a red rose. His mother’s last-minute urging caused him to switch his vote, break the tie, and change the course of American political history.
• Cora E. Burke (1876-1962) - community organizer and President of Knoxville’s Colored Women’s Political League.
• Lizzie Crozier French  (1851-1926)— founded the Knoxville Equal Suffrage Association, served as president of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association, she was a renowned educator and reformer. She was also active on the National level.
• Mary Wilson McTeer (1853-1898) - the first woman to earn a bachelor’s degree in Tennessee, led the Maryville Equal Suffrage League which formed in 1896.
• Abby Crawford Milton (1881-1991) — was President of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association and lived long enough to be very active in efforts for the Equal Rights Amendment.
• George F. Milton (1869-1924) – formally editor of Knoxville New Sentinel, he became 2/3 owner of the Chattanooga News. He served on the Men’s Ratification Committee and used his newspaper to advance the cause. His second wife, Abby Crawford Milton, was a suffrage leader.

Middle Tennessee

• Mattie E. Coleman (1870-1943) –one of the first black physicians in the country who crossed the segregation line to work with white suffragists for voter registration and related efforts.
• Anne Dallas Dudley (1876-1955)— President of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association, and was active at the national level as well. She was a noted orator and devoted suffragist who led Nashville’s first suffrage parade.
• Frankie Pierce (1864-1954) — led the efforts in the Black community for suffrage, and crossed the strict segregation line to work with white suffragists for voter registration and related efforts.
• Kate Burch Warner (1851-1923) — first president of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association, she and the led the Governor’s Ratification Committee in 1920.

West Tennessee

• Representative Joe Hanover (1888-1984) – just 6 months older than Representative Harry T. Burn, Joe Hanover sponsored the ratification bill in the Tennessee House. Escaping the growing anti-Jewish culture in Poland, his mother smuggled him out of Poland in a sack. When he learned his mother could not vote in this land of liberty, he determined to run for the legislature to change that; and so he did.
• Elizabeth Avery Meriwether (1824-1916) —called the first public meeting for suffrage in Tennessee in 1872 and voted that year. She was not arrested, but admitted she wasn’t sure if they counted her vote. She also formed and was President of the first suffrage organization in Tennessee in 1893.
• Lide Meriwether (1829-1913) —sister-in-law of Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, she worked for suffrage and was President of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union to reduce domestic violence by limiting access to liquor.
• Sue Shelton White (1887-1943)—a stenographer from Jackson, Tennessee worked in Tennessee and then joined the National Women’s Party and became the editor of the weekly newsletter: The Suffragist.  She joined the White House protest and was arrested and jailed multiple times. When she returned to Tennessee, she became a lawyer.
• Lois Irene Marshall White — Sister-in-law of Sue Shelton White, local suffragist.