Georgianna Kathleen Symonette

Georgianna Kathleen Symonette (4 April 1902 – 14 May 1965)[1] a Bahamian suffragist, was the founding chairwoman of the Women's Branch of the Progressive Liberal Party[1] and founding member of the Women's Suffrage Movement.After Symonette finished her schooling, she became an assistant teacher in Wemyss Bight.[1] Along with Mary Ingraham, Eugenia Lockhart and Mabel Walker, Symonette founded the Women's Suffrage Movement.[1] Her son Clement Maynard II was the Deputy Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 1985 to 1992,[1] and Symonette's granddaughter Allyson Maynard Gibson assumed the position of Attorney General and Minister for Legal Affairs in 2012.[1] In 2012, the Bahamian government issued a series of postage stamps to honour the women who campaigned to gain universal adult suffrage.
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