Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Justice of the Peace of Evanston, Ill.

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Summary: Head and shoulders portrait of Judge Catharine Gouger Waugh McCulloch, facing camera, in high lace collar.
Judge and attorney Catherine McCulloch chaired the Legislative Committee of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA) from 1890 to 1912. She led a whistle-stop train tour in the state in 1893 in support of a "statutory suffrage" bill she drafted that would allow women in the state to vote in presidential elections. She was a Justice of the Peace in Evanston, Ill., from 1907 to 1913. Source: Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast, eds., Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), 561.