Emma Wold

Emma Wold (1871 - July 21, 1950 ) was an American suffragist. She was president of the College Equal Suffrage Association in Oregon, and later served as the headquarters secretary of the National Woman's Party.

Biography Prominent women at Woman's Party equal rights conference (1922). L to R: Agnes Morey, Brookline, MA; Katherine Morey, Brookline, MA & State Chairman of the Woman's Party; Elsie Hill, Norwalk, CT; Mary Dean Powell, DC; Emma Wold, Portland, OR; Mabel Vernon, Wilmington, DE Wold graduated from the University of Oregon and Washington Law School .

In 1918 she ran for the Oregon House of Representatives, but lost. She explained several former laws that stripped American women of their citizenship if they married a foreign man in this foreword.

In 1930 she was appointed by President Herbert Hoover to be a delegate at the Conference for Codification of International Law at the Hague, to represent women's interests in international law. She also worked as a lawyer and a teacher, and a Sunday school clerk and superintendent. Wold died on July 21, 1950.