Anna Howard Shaw

About Anna Howard Shaw

Birth Day: February 14, 1847
Birth Place: Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Died On: Jul 2, 1919 (age 72)
Birth Sign: Aquarius

Anna Howard Shaw Net Worth

Anna Howard Shaw was born on February 14, 1847 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. Remembered best as the one-time President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), this English-born doctor and Methodist cleric began her involvement with women's rights activism as the Chair of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
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💰Anna Howard Shaw Net worth: $1.9 Million

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About

Remembered best as the one-time President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), this English-born Doctor and Methodist cleric began her involvement with women's rights activism as the Chair of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

Before Fame

After working during her teenage years as a schoolteacher, she attended Albion College and the Boston University School of Theology and became an ordained minister in the Methodist Protestant Church. Later, she earned a medical degree from Boston University.

Trivia

After heading the World War I-era U.S. Council of National Defense's Women's Committee, she became the first female recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal.

Family Life

Though born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, she spent the majority of her childhood in Massachusetts and Michigan, U.S.A.

Associated With

She joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association in the late 1880s, on the invitation of women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony.