Martha Gilmore Robinson
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Martha Gilmore Robinson (August 18, 1888 – February 1981) was an American women's rights and civic activist, who founded the Silver Thimble Fund of America, the Woman Citizens' Union, co-founded the Louisiana Landmarks Society, and was president of Louisiana's League of Women Voters.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Robinson was born in New Orleans, on August 18, 1888, the daughter of attorney and U.S. Representative Samuel Louis Gilmore, and his wife, Martha Frazier Nolan Gilmore.[2] She was educated there at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, and at Sophie Newcomb College, from where she graduated in 1909.[3][2]
She married Robert Gibson Robinson, a graduate of Princeton, and the owner of a successful lumber business. They had four sons and a daughter.[2]
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Categories:
- 1888 births
- 1981 deaths
- Academy of the Sacred Heart (New Orleans, Louisiana) alumni
- H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College alumni
- Politicians from New Orleans
- Schools of the Sacred Heart alumni
- Women in Louisiana politics
- Civil rights activists from Louisiana
- 20th-century American people
- Activists from New Orleans
- American women's rights activists
- 20th-century American women
- American women human rights activists
- American activist stubs