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1916

The annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association was held in Atlantic City. Pres. Woodrow Wilson, former governor of N.J., participated as a speaker on September 8

.Alice Paul's Congressional Union became the National Woman's Party. The New Jersey chapter of the National Women's Party was formed with Alison Turnbull Hopkins (1880-1951) as president.

1917

Alice Paul and five New Jersey woman suffragists were arrested and jailed for picketing the White House in Washington, D. C., to protest over President Wilson's failure to endorse the federal woman suffrage amendment. They were Julia Hurlbut and Alison Turnbull Hopkins of Morristown, Phebe Persons-Scott and Beatrice Kinkead of Montclair, and Mary Abbott of Atlantic City.