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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: February 16, 2015
Caption: Belva Ann Lockwood
Additional Description: 1913 Portrait by Nellie Mathas Horne in the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC.

"Belva Ann Lockwood flatly rejected the gallantry of those who sought to protect women from the more rigorous aspects of life.Denied the right to teach physical education to her female pupils, Lokwood protested until that privilege was granted. Barred later from utilizing a hard-won law degree in many courts, she lobbied for a congressional bill permitting women to argue before the Supreme Court and, on its passage in 1879, became the first woman admitted to practice in that tribunal. In 1884 Lockwood realized that although she could not vote, she could seek public office. By late summer, before cheering supporters, she became the first woman to formally declare her candidacy for president. In this portrait Lockwood appears in robes presented to her in 1908 on receiving an honorary degree from her alma mater, Syracuse University."
Submitted: March 24, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p303599
File Size: 2.249 Megabytes

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