biography
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Sheppard, Kate
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popular name of Catherine Wilson Sheppard
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1848–1934)
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| biography:
| Suffragist, born in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK. She emigrated to New Zealand in 1869. She possessed a strong sense of social responsibility, allied to the belief that women should be entitled to participate fully in political affairs. In 1887 she became an officer of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and from that position led a nation-wide struggle for the enfranchisement of women. Her campaign succeeded in 1893, when New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the vote. |
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