Jane Y. McCallum

Jane Yelvington McCallum (December 30, 1877 – August 14, 1957) was an American politician and author, a women's suffrage and Prohibition activist, and the longest-serving Secretary of State of Texas.At first, she convinced the owner of The Austin American (as of then not merged with The Statesman) to publish "Suffrage Corner", her column of constant editorials against the movement's opposition.Both male and female protestors spoke for 16 hours, including McCallum, who called him the "implacable foe of woman suffrage and of every great moral issue for which women stood."[8] The protest was timed to reach many of his supporters in town for a farming conference and contributed to a turn in the general opinion of Ferguson and his eventual resignation.[8] McCallum was on site in 1918 when Governor William P. Hobby signed a bill into law which allowed Texas women to vote in primary elections.[10] Throughout the 1920s, they pushed for legislation on "school funding, prison reform, maternal/infant health care, restrictions on child labor, stricter prohibition laws," most of which was enacted.
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