Virginia Louisa Minor (born March 27, 1824, Caroline County, Virginia; died August 14, 1894, St. Louis, Missouri) was an American women's suffrage activist. She is best remembered as the plaintiff in Minor v. Happersett, an 1875 United States Supreme Court case in which Minor unsuccessfully argued that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote. Minor married her distant cousin, lawyer Francis Minor, in 1843; they settled in St. Wikipedia
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