Category:Nina Benner-Anderson

Nina Benner-Andersson 

Swedish suffragette and peace activist
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Name in native language	Nina Andersson
Date of birth	30 May 1865 Q58526768 Nina Amanda Constantia Åhlander
Date of death	26 March 1947 Västerås domkyrkoförsamling
Country of citizenship	Sweden
Occupation	nurse politician peace activist suffragist
Member of	Föreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt i Västerås (1917) Föreningen frisinnade kvinnor
Member of political party	Free-minded National Association
Position held	president (Föreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt i Västerås, 1912–1917) city council member (Västerås Town, 1913–1919)
Field of work	women's suffrage in Sweden
Native language	Swedish
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Nina Amanda Constantia Benner-Anderson née Åhlande (1865–1947) was a Swedish nurse, women's rights activist, suffragist, pacifist and politician. In 1906, She founded the Västerås branch of the National Association for Women's Suffrage in 1909, becoming a board member in 1909. In 1912, she was the first woman to be elected to the Västerås City Council. Benner-Anderson was one of the Swedish delegates at the 1915 Women's Peace Conference in the Hague and continued to support the cause for peace in the 1920s and 1930s. She was also politically active in the Free-minded National Association and a member for a time of the Liberal Women's Association.