Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt | |
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.png) Mary Clement Leavitt (1887) | |
| Born | Mary Greenleaf Clement September 22, 1830 Hopkinton, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Died | February 5, 1912 (aged 81) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, suffragist, women's rights activist, Temperance Evangelist Missionary |
| Spouse | Thomas Hooker Leavitt (1857-1878; divorced) |
| Children | 3 |
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Mary Greenleaf Leavitt (née Clement; September 22, 1830 – February 5, 1912) was an educator and successful orator who became the first round-the-world missionary for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Setting out on virtually non-stop worldwide tours over a decade, she "went to all continents save Antarctica,"[1] where she crusaded against alcohol and its evils including domestic violence; and advocated for women's suffrage and other equal rights such as higher education for women. In 1891 she became the honorary life president of the World's WCTU.
- ^ Tyrrell, Ian (1991). Woman's World/Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880–1930. Chapel Hill and London: The University of Carolina Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-8078-1950-6.