Answer:
Mary Elizabeth Lease was:
a lawyer and Farmers' Alliance activist
Explanation:
Mary Elizabeth Lease (1853-1933) was an activist and public speaker, most precisely, a Populist orator. She studied law and became engaged in different causes, including woman's suffrage, prohibition, labor issues, farmers' interests and political campaigns.
Lease started lecturing for the Farmers' Alliance in 1887, which main aim was to bring all the farmers together so as to promote their interests - some of which included:
- monetary reforms that would help farmers
- goverment regulations on the railroads
- national banks eliminations
- the creation of a Union Party
- to influence Republicans and Democrats to promote legislative interests in favor of farmers
Lease would give impressive and rousing speeches to represent the Union Labor Party and later she became a county office candidate.
