Emma Wold
American suffragist
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| Intro | American suffragist | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Politician Suffrage activist Activist Suffragist | |
| Work field | Activism Politics | |
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| Birth | 1871 | |
| Death | 21 July 1950Washington, D.C., United States of America (aged 79 years) |
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Emma Wold (died 1950) was an American suffragist. She was president of the College Equal Suffrage Association in Oregon, and later served as the headquarters secretary of the National Woman's Party.
Wold graduated from the University of Oregon and Washington Law School.
In 1918 she ran for the Oregon House of Representatives, but lost.
She wrote the foreword to a 1928 collection of nationality laws as impacted by marriage for the House of Representatives Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.
In 1930 she was appointed by President Herbert Hoover to be a delegate at the Conference for Codification of International Law at the Hague, to represent women's interests in international law.
She also worked as a lawyer and a teacher, and a Sunday school clerk and superintendent.
Wold died on July 21, 1950.