Frances Willard

Frances Willard was the founder of the national Woman's Christian Temperance Union and was its president until her death. Willard was an educator and later became the dean of women at Northwestern University. She helped to organize the Association for the Advancement of Women, for women who thought that sufferage was too extreme. After leaving Northwestern in 1874, Willard became president of the Chicago Woman's Temperance Union, and later the secretary of the Illinois temperance association. She and other Midwestern temperance leaders joined together in late 1874 to form the national WCTU, and she was chosen recording secretary of it. Willard made temperance her life's work, but she was soon at odds with conservatives, as she wanted to push for women's suffrage. Willard urged the WTCU to promote a variety of reform causes, and separate departments were organized. Frances Willard is one of the most important people of the Temperance Movement.
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