Mary Elizabeth Lease was an American lecture, writer, and political activist. She was born on September 11, 1850, Ridgway, Pennsylvania and died on October 29, 1933, Callicoon, New York. She went to Kansas to teach in a mission school. After some years she married to a local pharmacist.
During 1890s at Kansas populist swept into the state power. Around 1890, she was involved with the political parties with the Kansas farmers against the high mortgage interest and railroad rates. She traveled around a lot to observe and see what was going on. After that she became one of the most prominent woman. One of her famous quote is “ raise less corn and more hell” she told this to the farmers in the Kansas.
For the work she has done, she was criticized so much by the people because of her “unworthy behavior” but she never gave up on being who she was. Back then girls/women didn’t have rights like they do now and because of that people criticized women who ever did right things and/or went against something. They were there just to be a good wife and a mother. But going back to the topic, she gave speeches and she continued being a political activist.
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