The Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission was an American woman's suffrage organization formed by Carrie Chapman Catt in March 1917 in New York City, based on funds willed for the purpose by publisher Miriam Leslie. The organization helped promote the cause of suffrage through increasing awareness of the issue and through education.
It established a 25-person press bureau that provided materials to newspapers across the country on this issue. This bureau also developed and distributed pamphlets to identify candidates for office who opposed women's suffrage. It was estimated that around $933,728.88 of the funds left by Leslie went directly to the cause of women's suffrage.[1] The commission was dissolved in 1929, after passage of the 19th Amendment that enfranchised women. They voted for the first time in a presidential election in 1920.