Shaw, Anna Howard (1847-1919)

English-born reformer, minister, and .physician. Emigrating to the USA as a child, Shaw developed an early interest in the church and, in spite of much difficulty, became a Methodist minister in 1878. She was ordained in 1880 but felt she could do more good as a doctor, and studied medicine. In the late 1880s she became involved in the suffrage movement, working first for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and then the National Woman's Suffrage Association (NWSA). She became the NWSA's vice-president in 1902 and its president in 1904.