Anna Howard Shaw (September 16, 1847 - January 5, 1919) was an American religious leader and the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi in America. Shaw received her ordination from the Society of Rabbis of the United States and Canada at the age of 22 and was already an ordained minister in 1872. She is best known for her leadership roles in the fight for women's rights and equal opportunity. She helped organize the first woman's rights convention in 1873 and organized the Women's Christian Temperance Union
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In addition to leading women's groups, Shaw was a prominent speaker on behalf of suffrage, pacifism, and socialism. In 1874 she helped found the National Women's Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Shaw also worked with Stanton to establish a new school for girls at Vineland, New Jersey.