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Elizabeth Minnie Huff

AKA: Elizabeth Hoff; Elizabeth Minnie Huff Johnson; Elisabeth Minnie Johnson
Released
Date of birth:28. 01. 1891
Date of death:1989
Age:97 Deceased
Gender:Female
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Support
Women's suffrage National Woman's Party Silent Sentinels
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Biography

Elizabeth Minnie Huff (January 28, 1891 - 1989), later Elizabeth Minnie Huff Johnson and sometimes recorded as Elisabeth Minnie Johnson, was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. The exact day of her death is unresolved.

She was arrested on January 13, 1919 and released on bail, then rearrested that evening and held overnight. On January 14 she was sentenced to five days in the District Jail. No discharge record has been found; the sentence would nominally have run to January 19, which is a calculation rather than a record.

On the name: Doris Stevens's appendix lists her as "Elizabeth Hoff", and this record was previously filed under that spelling. Inez Haynes Irwin's contemporary history of the National Woman's Party names Elizabeth Huff among those arrested on January 13, and the biographical record confirms Huff. "Hoff" appears to be a variant or slip in Stevens.

Case

Charges: Arrested for picketing the Wilson White House for woman suffrage.
Arrested: Jan 13, 1919
Incarcerated: Jan 13, 1919
Sentence: Five days in the District Jail, imposed January 14, 1919. Arrested January 13, released on bail, rearrested that evening and held overnight. No discharge record found; the nominal completion date of January 19 is a calculation and is not recorded as a release.
Convicted: Imprisoned in the 1917-1919 National Woman's Party suffrage campaign