Biography
Mary Short 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. Doris Stevens recorded her term as: November 10, 1917: 30 days at Occoquan.
Stevens identifies Short with Minneapolis and describes her as a state officer of the National Woman’s Party.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 368.
