First Woman To Argue Before US Supreme Court
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An important leader in the women's equal rights movement, Belva Bennett Lockwood was born near here in a log cabin in 1830.
Waymark Code: WM398Q
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 02/29/2008
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BELVA LOCKWOOD
First woman to argue before the US Supreme Court, 1879.
Presidential candidate, 1884 and 1888, for the National Equal Rights Party.
At birth Lockwood had neither wealth and social standing nor the promise of a fine education. But eventually she would personally extract her law degree from the President of the United States, become the first woman admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, and become a leader in the woman suffrage movement in the late nineteenth century.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1879
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