The Votes for Women League of North Dakota (also called North Dakota League for Votes for Women) was organized on February 4, 1912 in Fargo at the home of Mrs. Mary Darrow Weible.  The Fargo group remained active into World War I and the rise of the Nonpartisan League which also helped enact limited suffrage in North Dakota in 1917.  By 1919 the League began discussing the formation of a civic league as its replacement.

The records of the Votes for Women League of North Dakota, Fargo Branch consist of meeting minutes, some correspondence and various subject files. The meeting minutes ledger covers the period of 1912 to 1919 and details the general activities of the club. Another folder contains miscellaneous, undated meeting minutes. The correspondence file (1916-1917) contains only several letters from the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company. The subject files include several membership lists, a 1917 treasurer's report of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and a newspaper clipping on the death of Clara L. Darrow. The League publications include its 1917 "Program Suggestions for Leagues," and the program for its 1917 annual convention in Bismarck. 
 

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