Josephine Jewell Dodge
(1855-1928)

“Josephine Jewell Dodge was the president of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS). According to a biography compiled by her alma mater, Vassar College, she was the daughter of Marshall Jewell, the U.S. minister to Russia and then the U.S. postmaster general in the 1870s. In 1875, she married Arthur Dodge, who was from a prominent New York family. ‘Mrs. Dodge was both an outspoken anti-suffragist and a central actor in the reform campaign that worked toward the establishment of child care programs — “day nurseries” — for the children of poor and working-class women who worked because of financial necessity,’ McConnaughy says. ‘Her message really was about the damage to the reform potential of women that she believed woman suffrage would bring — through women's integration into the 'corrupt' world of party politics.’”