Josepha Whitney

Overview

Josepha Newcomb Whitney born Washington D.C. September 27, 1871 (d. 1968). Visual artist, specializing in landscapes. Suffragist. Chair of Connecticut Women’s Peace Party. President of New Haven League of Women Voters. Democratic candidate for state Senate, 1922.

Quotations

“[I]n striving to establish democracy and to give the peace-loving half of the people a voice in questions of militarism, commercialism and arbitration the woman-suffragists are the real ‘peace-fanatics.’” (The Survey, vol 33, 1915, p. 117; photo cornwallis historical society)