Clara Ueland

Clara Hampson Ueland was an American community activist and suffragist. She was the first president of the Minnesota League of Women Voters and worked to advance public welfare legislation. She was the mother of writer Brenda Ueland, who wrote a biography of her later published as O Clouds, Unfold.

Clara Hampson was born on October 10, 1860 in Akron, Ohio. She married lawyer Andreas Ueland in 1885. The couple and their three eldest daughters moved into a sixteenroom house on the south shore of Lake Calhoun in 1891. Clara taught kindergarten in her home and worked to establish kindergartens in the schools of Minneapolis. Ueland travelled to Connecticut in 1920 as part of the Emergency Suffrage Corps to protest Governor Marcus H. Holcombs refusal to call a special session to ratify the suffrage amendment. In 1921, she was appointed chair of the Minneapolis fundraising committee for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She was presented the pen that Minnesota Governor Joseph A. A. Burnquist used when signing the presidential suffrage bill. In 1925, Ueland criticized Republican foreign policy and backdoor cooperation with the League of Nations, saying We have got to spread the gospel among the women, telling them that they are paying too much for cotton and woolen goods, for aluminumware a

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