High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Minnie Fisher Cunningham (March 19, 1882 – December 9, 1964) was the first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters, and a suffrage politician who worked for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution giving women the vote. As a member of the National American Women's Suffrage Association, Cunningham helped persuade Senator Andrieus Aristieus Jones of New Mexico, chair of the Senate Woman Suffrage Committee, to introduce the amendment for a vote. Cunningham was part of a team who met with President Woodrow Wilson in the Oval Office, successfully coaxing the President into releasing a statement expressing a leaning towards suffrage. In 1928, Cunningham became the first woman from Texas to run for the United States Senate. She was the first female student of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston to earn a Graduate of Pharmacy degree. Cunningham was descended from wealthy plantation...