SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Alva Belmont

1853 - 1933

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Alva Erskine Belmont (née Smith; January 17, 1853 – January 26, 1933), known as Alva Vanderbilt from 1875 to 1896, was an American multi-millionaire socialite and women's suffrage activist. She was noted for her energy, intelligence, strong opinions, and willingness to challenge convention. In 1909, she founded the Political Equality League to get votes for suffrage-supporting New York State politicians, wrote articles for newspapers, and joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alva Belmont has received more than 1,252,922 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Alva Belmont is the 586th most popular social activist, the 9,792nd most popular biography from United States and the 88th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Alva Belmont ranks 586 out of 840. Before her are James Meredith, Luis Taruc, Sylvia Rivera, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, Selena Rocky Malone, and Asma Jahangir. After her are Berta Cáceres, Hawa Abdi, Katie Eder, Andrea James, Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, and Ekaterina Karavelova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Alva Belmont ranks 102. Before her are Charles Howard Hinton, Gaston Bonnier, Henning von Holtzendorff, Leander Starr Jameson, Philander C. Knox, and John Henry Twachtman. After her are William Gillette, and Laura Mendez. Among people deceased in 1933, Alva Belmont ranks 144. Before her are Earl Derr Biggers, Emil Magnusson, Osvald Moberg, Spottiswoode Aitken, Zaida Ben-Yusuf, and Daphne Akhurst. After her are Hjalmar Mellin, Ruurd Leegstra, Jean Cugnot, George Luks, Saliamonas Banaitis, and Ormond Stone.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alva Belmont ranks 9,792 out of 20,380. Before her are Dorothy Poynton-Hill (1915), Harvey Mason (1947), Arthur Laurents (1917), J. Alden Weir (1852), Jim Montgomery (1955), and Janet Hubert (1956). After her are Roger L. Jackson (1958), Daniel J. Travanti (1940), LaVern Baker (1929), Ernie Kovacs (1919), Taissa Farmiga (1994), and Rob Estes (1963).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Alva Belmont ranks 88. Before her are Sam Childers (1963), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), Albert Parsons (1848), James Meredith (1933), Sylvia Rivera (1951), and Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861). After her are Katie Eder (1950), Andrea James (1967), Ryan White (1971), Ella Baker (1903), Martin Luther King III (1957), and Lillian Wald (1867).

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