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Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard ( September 28 , 1839 - February 17 , 1898 ) was an American educator, Temperance reformer, and Women Suffragist . She was born in Churchville, New York . Willard was elected president of United States Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1879 , a position which she held for life. She created the ''Formed Worldwide W.C.T.U.'' in 1883 , and was elected its president in 1888 . She founded the magazine The Union Signal , and was its editor from 1892 through 1898 . Her tireless efforts for women's suffrage and Prohibition included a fifty-day speaking tour in 1874 , averaging 30,000 miles of travel a year, and four hundred lectures a year for a ten year period. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution . She wrote ''Woman and Temperance'', ''Nineteen Beautiful Years'', ''A Great Mother'', ''Glimpses of Fifty Years'', and a large number of magazine articles. Other honors: Willard was the first woman represented among the illustrious company of America’s greatest leaders in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol , she was national president of Alpha Phi in 1887 and the first dean of women at Northwestern University . In 1940, she was portrayed on a U.S. Postage Stamp . A dormitory at Northwestern University , Willard Residential College was named after her. She was publicly honored many times during her life by persons of prominence in government and society in many lands. Carrie Chapman Catt , Pi Beta Phi , said of her, "There has never been a woman leader in this country greater than nor perhaps so great as Frances Willard." She was called the "best loved woman in America," and her close friend, . PUBLICATIONS
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