Matilda Hall Gardner

Matilda Gardner

Matilda Hall Gardner (1871–1954) was an American suffragist and a member of the national executive committee of the National Woman's Party.

Born in Chicago, Gardner spent much of her life in Washington, D.C. She was the daughter of Frederick Hall, an editor of the Chicago Tribune, and married to Gilson Gardner, a Washington representative of Scripps newspapers. Educated in Chicago, Paris, and Brussels, Gardner was one of the original core of activists who worked with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns when they first came to Washington to work for the Congressional Committee. She was a member of the national executive committee of the National Woman's Party beginning in 1914. She was arrested on July 14, 1917, and sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse; and on January 13, 1919, she was sentenced to 5 days in District Jail.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Stevens, Doris (1920). Jailed for Freedom. Boni and Liveright. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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