Elizabeth Glendower Evans

Elizabeth Glendower Evans (February 28, 1856 – December 12, 1937) was an American social reformer and suffragist.

Life Evans née Gardiner was born on February 28, 1856, in New Rochelle, New York. She inherited a significant amount of money when she turned 26 in 1882. The same year she married Glendower Evans who died four years later, in 1886.

When Evans returned to the United States she took up the cause of women's suffrage and the associated problems of tenements and factory work arising from disenfranchisement. She was the first National Organizer of the Woman's Peace Party. From 1920 until 1937 she served as a national director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Evans died on December 12, 1937, in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Legacy Evans papers are housed at the Schlesinger Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.