Catherine M. Flanagan

Catherine Mary Flanagan (August 19, 1888 – August 3, 1927) was an American suffragist affiliated with the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association and later the National Woman's Party. She was among the Silent Sentinels arrested for protesting outside the White House in 1917.

Biography Catherine Mary Flanagan was born on August 19, 1888, in Hartford, Connecticut, the second of seven children of Irish immigrant parents. Her father had moved to the US as a political exile after participating in the Irish Freedom movement, and following his death, she began work as a stenographer and as a bookkeeper at age 13. In 1917, Flanagan took vacation leave to travel to Washington, D.C., to join the National Woman's Party (NWP) in the Silent Sentinels protest outside the White House.