Zara DuPont

Zara DuPont
Zara DuPont
Born	February 24, 1869; Louisville, Kentucky
Died	May 13, 1946 (aged 77); Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Occupation	Suffragist

Zara "Zadie" DuPont (1869–1946) was an American suffragist, serving as the first Vice President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association.

Life

DuPont was born on February 24, 1869, in Louisville, Kentucky. As a young woman she joined the board of the Children's Free Hospital in Louisville.^[1]

She moved to Ohio where she became active in the suffrage movement there.^[1] In 1910 she worked unsuccessfully to include women's suffrage in the reformed constitution of Ohio.^[2] In 1911 she joined the Cuyahoga Woman's Suffrage Association, going on the serve as the first Vice President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association.^[3]^[1] She worked with Florence E. Allen on Maud Wood Park's organizing tour of Ohio.^[4]

DuPont was also a civil rights and trade activist, specifically as a pro-labor shareholder activist at Bethlehem Steel and Montgomery Ward.^[2]

DuPont died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 13, 1946.^[2]

Zara DuPont was a member of the Du Pont family. Notable close relatives included her brother T. Coleman du Pont and niece Ethel du Pont.^[5]^[2]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "DuPont, Zara". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. 11 May 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
^ Blackwell, Alice Stone (1919). The Woman Citizen. Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission. p. 348.
^ Strom, Sharon Hartman; Luscomb, Florence (2001). Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform. Temple University Press. p. 85. ISBN 9781566398190.
^ "'Her'story: Encountering Women in the Filson Collections: Ethel du Pont and labor activism". The Filson Historical Society. 6 September 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2019.