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OKLAHOMA 527 There was still a desire to keep the organization alive and be ready for the next opportunity. In 1911 Mrs. Biggers declined to stand again for the presidency, after serving seven years, and Dr. Ruth A. Gay, with a full board, was elected at the annual conven- tion, Mrs. Biggers taking the office of treasurer. At the State meeting of 1912 Mrs. Mattie Flick, Miss Jessie Nourse and Mrs. Mattie Cloud were added to the board. Dr. Gay held the presi- dency until 1913, when Mrs. Cora B. Gotchy was elected. The State association became a member of the Southern Women's Conference. No further effort was made with the Legislature but the Republican party put a woman suffrage plank in its State platform and the Progressive party took steps toward another initiative petition, Mrs. Gotchy assisting, but it did not meet with support. Mrs. Feuquay was selected for president in 1914 and helped a resolution for an amendment introduced in the Legisla- ture by the Socialist Representatives McLemore and Pritchett, which did not come out of committee. In 1915 Mrs. Adelia C. Stephens was elected president. The vice-president, Miss Mary Crangle, in the northeastern part of the State, and the recording secretary, Mrs. Frances A. Agnew, in the southwestern part, did active personal work to keep up the interest. The Democratic Secretary of State, J. L. Lyon, made strenuous individual effort to start an initiative petition, which was not successful. Suffrage resolutions were introduced by leg- islators independently in the session of 1915 and the special session of 1916. Luther Harrison and Charles F. Barrett, now Adjutant General, were helpful friends in the Legislature. Mrs. hens was continued as president through 1916 and 1917. * In 1916 the resolution for a suffrage amendment passed the House by a vote of 62 to 15 but was adversely reported by the Senate Committee. 1 Other State officers through the years were Mrs. N. M. Carter, Mrs. Julia Dunham, Dr. Edith Barber, Elizabeth Redfield, Mrs. J. R. Harris, Mrs. Narcissa Owen. Mrs. A. K. McKcllop, Martha Phillips, Minnie O. Branstettcr, Mrs. Roswell Johnson, Lucy ruble, Carrir K. Easterly, Kate Stafford, Dora De-lay. Film McElroy. K.lith Wright. Mrs, Lee Lennox, Mary Goddard, Mrs. John Thrcadgill, Blanche H. Hawlcy, Mrs. A. S. Heany, Mrs. Clarence Davis, Mrs. Carl Williams, Mrs. C. L. Daugherty, MM. John Leahy, Jessie Livingston Parks, Mrs. N. McCarty, Louise Boylan. District presidents and chairmen of t ommittccs. rkpatiick, J.mct C'. Broeck, Elizabeth Burt. ! ;s. Mrs. H. J. Bonnell, Mrs. O. A. Mitscher, Mrs. C. C. Conlan, Effie M. Rails, E. Irene Yeoman.