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Carrie Chapman Catt, who graduated from Iowa State College in November, 1880, was an American leader in the campaign for woman suffrage. From 1904 to 1923, she served as president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance and was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when the Nineteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution gave women the right to vote. In 1920, Mrs. Catt founded the League of Women voters. She was born Carrie Clinton Lane in Rippon, Wisconsin in 1859. After attending Iowa State, she taught school and became the first woman superintendent of schools in Mason City, Iowa. She married Leo Chapman who died in 1886; she married George William Catt in 1890. This photo is of Carrie as a young woman. Old Botany Hall at Iowa State University has been renamed Carrie Chapman Catt Hall in 1991. She died in 1947.