Jessie Wallace Hughan

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1875 – 1955

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Who was Jessie Wallace Hughan?

Jessie Wallace Hughan was an American educator, a socialist activist, and a radical pacifist. During her college days she was one of four co-founders of Alpha Omicron Pi, a national fraternity for university women. She also was a founder and the first Secretary of the War Resisters League, established in 1923. For over two decades, she was a perennial candidate for political office on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America in her home state of New York.

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Born
Dec 25, 1875
Education
  • Columbia University
  • Barnard College
Lived in
  • New York City
Died
1955

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on July 23, 2013

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