GATT, CARRIE CHAPMAN ), American suffragist leader, was born at Ripon, Wis., on Jan. 9, 1859. She was educated at the State college of Iowa and took a special course in law. She then became the high school and general super intendent of schools at Mason City, Iowa. In 1890 she enlisted in the cause of woman suffrage, in furtherance of which she lectured throughout the United States and in Europe. She held the office of president of the National American Woman Suffrage Associa tion from 1900 to 1904 and from 1915 until the close of the cam paign which resulted in the passing of the woman-suffrage amend ment (1920) to the U.S. Constitution. She organized and was president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance from 1904 to 1923. After the enfranchisement of women she devoted herself to the cause of peace and served as chairman of a national com mittee on the cause and cure of war, which represented nine women's organizations of the United States. She wrote Woman Suffrage and Politics.