Addie Worth Bagley Daniels (née Adelaide Worth Bagley; May 1, 1869 - December 19, 1943) was an American suffragist leader and writer. She attended the Eighth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1920 as the US delegate, the appointee of President Woodrow Wilson,[1] upon the recommendation of Carrie Chapman Catt.[2]
Personal life
Adelaide Worth Bagley was born May 1, 1869, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her parents were Major William Henry Bagley and Adelaide Ann Worth. Her mother's father was Jonathan Worth, governor of North Carolina.[3] Worth Bagley and David W. Bagley were her brothers.
She married Josephus Daniels, a newspaper man and leading proponent of the Ku Klux Klan who was a perpetrator of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898 that saw a mob of thousands of white supremacists overthrow an elected government and expel black residents and political leaders. He also served as Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson and Ambassador to Mexico during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Their son, Jonathan W. Daniels, was a White House Press Secretary.
Daniels died in Raleigh in 1943. The following year, the government commissioned the SS Addie B. Daniels.[4][5]
Selected works
- 1920, "The Justice, Expediency and Inevitableness of Ratification", Everywoman's Magazine
- 1945, Recollections of a Cabinet Minister's Wife 1913-1921
References
- ^ Ritzenhoff & Hermes 2009, p. 238.
- ^ Voris 1996, p. 257.
- ^ Daniels 2001, p. 7.
- ^ Lacey 2002, p. 100.
- ^ "Josephus Daniels House". National Park Service. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
Bibliography
- Daniels, Lucy (29 November 2001). With A Woman's Voice: A Writer's Struggle for Emotional Freedom. Madison Books. ISBN 978-1-4617-1398-2.
- Lacey, Theresa Jensen (1 October 2002). Amazing North Carolina. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-1-4185-3840-8.
- Ritzenhoff, Karen A.; Hermes, Katherine A. (14 January 2009). Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-0426-4.
- Voris, Jacqueline Van (1996). Carrie Chapman Catt: A Public Life. Feminist Press at CUNY. ISBN 978-1-55861-139-9.
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