Isle can be Proud to Claim Suffragist

Article published in The Daily News, Sunday, October 20. 2002

by Judge Susan Criss

The woman who led to first successful campaign to give women the right to vote in Texas was a Galvestonian named Minnie Fisher Cunningham.

Born in New Waverly, she made her home in Galveston with her husband, B.J. Cunningham, an attorney. Minnie Fish, as she was nick named by Franklin D. Roosevelt,