Mary Hall Ingham

Mary Hall Ingham (November 24, 1866 – January 1, 1937) was an American suffragist and reformer. She was the chair of the Pennsylvania branch of the National Woman's Party. She picketed the White House as a part of the Silent Sentinels, was arrested, and spent time in the Occoquan Workhouse. She worked to secure the ratification of the 19th Amendment by the Pennsylvania legislature and fought for the Equal Rights Amendment. She founded the Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia and was director of Philadelphia's Bureau of Municipal Research and the Octavia Hill Association. Ingham attended the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, and Radcliffe College.

Early life and education Mary Hall Ingham was born on November 24, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Catherine Keppele (née Hall) and William Armstrong Ingham. Her grandfather was Samuel Delucenna Ingham, Treasury Secretary under President Andrew Jackson. She attended Agnes Irwin School. Though born into a prominent family, she was less than enthusiastic about society life. She was arrested two more times. In 1919, Ingham joined a group of previously jailed suffragists who toured the United States as part of a publicity stunt, dressed in prison clothing, in a railroad car they called the "Prison Special". Following the passage of the suffrage amendment in Congress, Ingham worked to secure the ratification of the amendment by the Pennsylvania legislature, which occurred on June 24, 1919.