Sara Bard Field
Suffragist
Died when: 91 years 287 days (1101 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Sara Bard Field (September 1, 1882 – June 15, 1974) was an American poet, suffragist, free love advocate, Georgist, and Christian socialist.She worked on successful campaigns for women's suffrage in Oregon and Nevada.
Working with Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, Field drove across the country from California to Washington, D.C. to present a petition containing a reported 500,000 signatures demanding a federal suffrage amendment to President Woodrow Wilson.
She was known as a skilled orator and became a poet later in her career, marrying her long-time partner and mentor, poet and lawyer C.E.S.
Wood.
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