Carrie Chapman Catt

 

Carrie Chapman Catt

Karissa Troyer
 

   Carrie Chapman Catt was born on January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin, and died March 9, 1947. Catt grew up in Charles City, Iowa. She graduated from Iowa State College and was the valedictorian of her class. Carrie became a teacher and then the superintendent of the schools In Mason City Iowa. In 1885 Catt married Leo Chapman,who died shortly after thei marriage. In 1890 she married her second husband George Catt. In 1915 Catt became the president for the National American Woman Suffrage Association.