34. Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller was a member of the transcendentalist movement in New England, the editor of the newspaper The Dial before moving to New York to work at the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley. She was regarded as the best-read person in New England of either gender, and was the first woman granted access to the Harvard Library. She became an influential advocate of women’s access to education, women’s suffrage, equal employment opportunities, and abolition of slavery, all in the 1840s. Susan B. Anthony cited her as her inspiration. Fuller can rightfully be called the founder of the American women’s suffrage movement.