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- NAME: Mary Livermore
- OCCUPATION: Women's Rights Activist, Editor, Journalist
- BIRTH DATE: December 19, 1820
- DEATH DATE: May 23, 1905
- EDUCATION: Female Seminary in Charlestown, Massachusetts
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston, Massachusetts
- PLACE OF DEATH: Melrose, Massachusetts
- Maiden Name: Mary Ashton Rice
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Mary Livermore was an American and social reformer who devoted her life to women's suffrage and the temperance movement.
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Mary Livermore was born on December 19, 1820 in Boston, Mass. She was an American suffragist and social reformer who lectured and wrote for religious and reform periodicals. She served as president of the American Woman Suffrage Association, the Association for the Advancement of Women and the Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Livermore died in 1905.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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