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  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Moylan, Pennsylvania
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Anna Howard Shaw was an American suffragist and the first woman minister of the Methodist Protestant Church.

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Anna Howard Shaw was an American suffragist who became the first woman minister of the Methodist Protestant Church. She earned a medical degree in 1886 and served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association for nearly a decade. During World War I, she worked diligently on home-front war activities. She died just before women gained the right to vote.

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(born Feb. 14, 1847, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, Eng.—died July 2, 1919, Moylan, Pa., U.S.) U.S. minister and suffragist. She arrived in the U.S. with her family in 1851. By age 15 she was a frontier schoolteacher, and in 1880 she became the first woman minister of the Methodist Protestant Church. She took up the causes of temperance and woman suffrage in 1885 and became an important spokesperson for both. She earned a medical degree the next year and later served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1904–15). She performed home-front war work during World War I, for which she received the Distinguished Service Medal in 1919. She died shortly before women gained the right to vote.

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