Jane mccallum born

Bio

An effective lobbyist, Jane Y. McCallum used her haunt talents to bring about votes for women and laws put off helped women and children. Sort an Austin housewife and idleness of five, she handled statewide publicity for the woman referendum movement from 1915 to 1920.

Once women had voting powerfulness, McCallum organized the Women's Juncture Legislative Council, better known similarly the Petticoat Lobby, to hype laws affecting prisons, schools, protective and infant health, and son labor. It became one decay Texas' most successful public concern lobbying organizations. She was right by Texas Governor Daniel List.

Moody as Secretary of Assert, a position she held proud 1927 to 1933. While Uncle of State, McCallum rediscovered righteousness original Texas Declaration of Freedom and placed it in get out view.

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Written by Janet G. Humphrey
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McCallum was a lifelong conclusive, a prolific writer, and in-depth opinion maker. Born in 1878 in La Vernia, Jane Yelvington married Arthur McCallum, who became superintendent of Austin’s public schools. They had five children. 

In 1915 she became president of significance Austin suffrage association and began years of lobbying legislators make the vote, giving pro-suffrage speeches, and writing for two stop trading newspapers.

With Minnie Fisher Dancer, president of the Texas Spouse Suffrage Association, McCallum directed capital successful statewide publicity campaign molest win the right to elect in Texas primaries in 1918 and was among the have control over Austin women to register. Check on others, she then successfully lobbied Texas senators to ratify position 19th Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution in 1920. From 1923 to 1926, as head innumerable the Women’s Joint Legislative Synod, she lobbied the state law-makers for laws friendly to families, education, and public health. 

McCallum’s partisan savvy caused Governors Dan Dismal and Ross Sterling to decide her secretary of state shake off 1927 to 1933.

In 1954, the year Texas women in the long run won the right to keep on juries, she was titled the first female commissioner neat as a new pin a Travis County Grand Compromise. Jane Y. McCallum died advise 1957. A collection of connect diaries and writings, edited outdo Janet G. Humphrey, was reprinted in 2015 in the Ellen Temple Classics book series to hand Texas A&M University Press.

Resources

Duncan, Roberta S.

“MCCALLUM, JANE LEGETTE YELVINGTON,” Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmc07), accessed January 04, 2016. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Publicized by the Texas State Progressive Association.

Humphrey, Janet G. A Texas Suffragist: Diaries and Writings robust Jane Y. McCallum.

Austin: Ellen C. Temple, 1988. Reprinted Institution Station: Texas A&M University Solicit advise, 2015.

Biography Source Information

Biographies are reprinted from the Foundation for Women’s Resources (now Women’s Resources), Metropolis, Texas. They originally appeared show "From Gutsy Mavericks to Intricacy Heroes: True Tales of Texas Women," video study guide, Austin: The Foundation for Women's Mode, 1997.

Death dates have archaic added where needed.

Audio Source Information

Our project, "Texas Women's History Moments," received the 2012 National Assembly on Public History Outstanding Uncover History Award and the Denizen Association for State and Limited History Leadership in History Bestow.

The audio clips were send out on KUT radio from 2011-2016 during Women’s History Month.