Anglo-American activist Anna Howard Shaw was BOTD in 1847. Born in Newcastle, England, her family emigrated to the United States when she was a child, settling in Massachusetts and later in rural Michigan. She became a school teacher at 15, working to support her family, and pursued her desire to become a preacher. She studied theology at Albion College and Boston University, and was eventually ordained into the Methodist Protestant Church, before competing a medical degree. In the 1880s, she became involved in the temperance movement, through which she met suffragette leader Susan B. Anthony. She served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association for 11 years, leading campaigns for a Constitutional amendment to grant women the vote. During World War One, she headed the Women’s Committee of the Council of National Defense, for which she was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. She lived for 30 years with her partner (and Susan’s niece) Lucy Elmina Anthony. She died in 1919 aged 72, only a few months before the US Congress ratified the 19th Constitutional Amendment, granting universal suffrage to American women.