Carrie Chapman Catt died on March 9, 1947, in New Rochelle, New York, at age 88, having lived to see women vote for nearly three decades.
Carrie Chapman Catt died on March 9, 1947, at her home in New Rochelle, New York, at the age of 88. By the time of her death, she had witnessed nearly three decades of American women exercising the right to vote that she had spent her life's work securing.
In her later years, Catt remained active in public affairs, turning her formidable organizational talents toward the causes of world peace and international cooperation. She founded the Committee on the Cause and Cure of War in 1925 and continued to write and speak on political and social issues almost until her death.
Her passing was marked by tributes from political leaders, women's organizations, and news outlets across the country, recognizing her as one of the principal architects of the Nineteenth Amendment and a tireless advocate for women's full citizenship. She was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, next to her longtime companion and fellow activist Mary Garrett Hay.
Catt's death closed the chapter on a life that had spanned from a childhood in frontier Iowa to international leadership in the global suffrage movement. Her legacy lived on through the League of Women Voters, which she founded in 1920, and through the enduring constitutional guarantee of women's suffrage that she had spent decades fighting to achieve.