Emily Plume Evans

Emily Plume Evans (May 9, 1865 – April 4, 1942), born Emily Mansfield Plume, was an American women's activist who was the founder of the New Era Club, South Carolina's first suffrage club. She was also the founding member of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina.

Early life and education Emily Plume Evans was born on May 9, 1865 in Newark, New Jersey. She was the daughter of Abbie Richardson and David Scott Plume. David Scott was a legislator, banker, and manufacturer. She spent most of her childhood in Waterbury, Connecticut. In 1895, Evans met South Carolina Governor John Gary Evans, during his visit to New York, and they married in 1897 in Waterbury, Connecticut. They moved to Spartanburg, South Carolina and had one child, a daughter named Emily Victoria Evans Knutson, in August 1899.

Following the path of 1917, Congress passed a suffrage amendment, and Evans and her club members continued to host rallies across the state to lobby politicians to ratify the amendment. By 1920, Evans was the founding member of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina (LWVSC). She became the chair of the Committee on Social and Industrial Conditions of South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs in 1916.