Elizabeth Langhorne Lewis

Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis (9 December 1851 – 30 January 1946) was the founder of the Lynchburg Equal Suffrage League and vice-president of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. She was also one of the founders of the Virginia League of Women Voters. In October 1913, the annual meeting of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia was organized by the Lynchburg Equal Suffrage League. entitled women to all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship for which "equal suffrage is an indispensable element."

Lewis presented numerous speeches about suffrage in Southern Virginia in 1915 and 1916, organizing a number of suffrage leagues in the cities where she spoke. During these years, the League underwent rapid growth. In 1914, the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia had only 45 local chapters; in 1916, it had grown to 115 chapters.

In 1916, Lewis and her daughter Elizabeth Otey helped to persuade the Virginia Republican Party state convention to endorse women's suffrage.

In the spring of 1918, Lewis' cousin Lila Valentine, the president of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, had undergone a serious operation. Lewis took over the running of the League in Valentine's place. Lewis was elected to the very first League of Women Voters board of directors. From 1926 to 1927, she ruled as president of the state League. Lewis was president of the Lynchburg chapter of the Women Voters League for more than a decade after it was formed in 1920.

Death Lewis died in Lynchburg on January 30, 1946. She was ninety-four years old. Her remains were buried next to those of her husband.