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Iris Calderhead (1889–1966) was a suffragist and organizer in the National Woman's Party. She became involved in the women's suffrage movement in 1915 after meeting Doris Stevens and Lucy Burns, leaders of the Congressional Union, in New York City. She spent the next several years traveling around the US, mobilizing support for a federal constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's right to vote. She was arrested twice in 1917, first for displaying a banner during a visit by President Woodrow Wilson and then for picketing the White House. The Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed women's right to vote in the United States in 1919, but Calderhead's activism continued as she campaigned for the same rights internationally.Photograph credit: Unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden