Olympia Brown

Olympia Brown
Brown in 1919
Born(1835-01-05)January 5, 1835
DiedOctober 23, 1926(1926-10-23) (aged 91)
Baltimore, Maryland, US
SpouseJohn Henry Willis
Children2

Olympia Brown (January 5, 1835 – October 23, 1926) was an American minister and suffragist. She was the first woman to be ordained as clergy with the consent of her denomination. Brown was also an articulate advocate for women's rights and one of the few first generation suffragists who were able to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.