Mamie Shields Pyle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mamie Shields Pyle

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1866

Place of Birth: Orange, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1949

Profession: activist, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Mary "Mamie" Shields Pyle (February 28, 1866 – December 22, 1949) was a women's suffrage leader in the U.S.
state of South Dakota.
She was instrumental in the state's enactment of women's suffrage in 1918.
Following a failed 1910 referendum on women's suffrage, Pyle became the leader of the South Dakota Universal Franchise League.
She then led the organization through several attempts to pass state referendums, narrowing the margin of defeat over time until the Citizenship Amendment finally passed in 1918.
Pyle remained president of the South Dakota Universal Franchise League through the state's ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment the following year.
She later became president of the state's chapter of the League of Women voters.
Pyle was one of the first women to become a presidential elector in 1921. Beyond suffrage, Pyle supported the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.
She was committed to education and worked to establish Huron College in Huron South Dakota, where she was a trustee for over forty years.