Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution. Willard became the national president of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union, or World WCTU, in 1879, and remained president for 19 years. Her vision progressed to include federal aid to education, free school lunches, unions for workers, the eight-hour work day, work relief for the poor, municipal sanitation and boards of health, national transportation, strong anti-rape laws, and protections against child abuse.
In the 1860s, Willard suffered a series of personal crises: both her father and her younger sister Mary died, her brother became an alcoholic, and Willard herself began to feel love for a woman who would ultimately go on to marry her brother. After her resignation as the first Dean of Women at Northwestern University, Willard focused her energies on a new career, traveling the American East Coast participating in the women’s temperance movement. Her tireless efforts for women's suffrage and prohibition included a fifty-day speaking tour in 1874, an average of 30,000 miles of travel a year, and an average of four hundred lectures a year for a ten year period, mostly with her longtime companion Anna Adams Gordon.
In 1874 Willard participated in the creation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) where she was elected the first corresponding secretary. Willard was elected the first president of the National Council of Women of the United States, in 1888, a position which she held for the remainder of her life. In her later years, Willard became a committed socialist and called for government ownership and control of all factories, railroads, and even theaters.
The famous portrait, "American Woman and her Political Peers" features Frances Willard at the center, surrounded by a convict, American Indian, lunatic, and an idiot. This image succinctly portrayed the argument for female enfranchisement; without the right to vote, the educated, respectable woman was equated with the other outcasts of society to whom the franchise was denied. Willard was the first woman represented among the illustrious company of America’s greatest leaders in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol.
The Drink:
The Exposition Cocktail:
1 oz dry vermouth
¾ oz cherry brandy
¾ oz sloe gin
Drunkability: 2
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 3
Priority of Conservation: 1
Comments: "sloe gin = fake"
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