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

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DuPont was born on February 24, 1869, in

Louisville, Kentucky Louisville is the List of cities in Kentucky, most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, and the list of United States cities by population, 27th-most-populous city ...

. As a young woman she joined the board of the Children's Free Hospital in Louisville. She moved to Ohio where she became active in the

suffrage movement Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women's suffra ...

there. In 1910 she worked unsuccessfully to include women's suffrage in the reformed

constitution of Ohio The Constitution of the State of Ohio is the basic governing document of the State of Ohio, which in 1803 became the 17th state to join the United States of America. Ohio has had three constitutions since statehood was granted. Ohio was created ...

. 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. She worked with Florence E. Allen on Maud Wood Park's organizing tour of Ohio. DuPont was also a civil rights and trade activist, specifically as a pro-labor shareholder activist at

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and

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. DuPont died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 13, 1946.

Personal

Zara DuPont was a member of the

Du Pont family The du Pont family () or Du Pont family is a prominent family descended from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817), a French minor aristocrat. Currently residing in the U.S. states of Delaware and Pennsylvania, the Du Ponts have been ...

. Notable close relatives included her brother T. Coleman du Pont and niece

Ethel du Pont Ethel du Pont Roosevelt-Warren (January 30, 1916 – May 25, 1965) was an American heiress and socialite and a member of the prominent du Pont family. She is best known for her widely publicized marriage to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., son of ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:DuPont, Zara 1869 births 1970 deaths Du Pont family Suffragists from Ohio Activists from Louisville, Kentucky

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