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Anna Shaw was the first woman ordained (1880) by the Methodist Protestant church, after graduating from Boston University Divinity School in 1878, the only woman in her class. She was also a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United…

Signed as Vice President of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), was a minister, lecturer and suffragist, who was recruited by Susan B. Anthony to the suffrage cause.