About: Mary Latimer McLendon

Mary Latimer McLendon (June 24, 1840 – November 20, 1921) was an activist in the prohibition and women's suffrage movements in the U.S. state of Georgia. Born into the planter class in the Antebellum South, she would move to Atlanta before the American Civil War. After the war, she became involved in the temperance movement, founding a local chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the early 1880s. While an activist for in the temperance movement, she began to be involved with the women's suffrage movement, joining the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association in 1892 and later serving as its president for several years in the late 1800s and early 1900s. During her lifetime, she saw the ratification of both the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, wh