Elizabeth Washburn Wright

Overview

Elizabeth Washburn Wright born Minneapolis, MN November 19, 1874 (d. 1954). Internationalist; led anti-opium campaign, 1908; US delegate to Opium Convention, 1924.

Quotations

"The opium question, therefore, has in a true sense become an international one—which will result in. . . it is to be hoped, the crushing out of one of the most subtle and pernicious menaces that has ever assailed mankind." (Outlook 1904, 90:642)