Photograph, Grace Hopkins handing gavel to Jessamine Merrill, 1951
LWVNJ Collection
Photograph, Grace Hopkins handing gavel to Jessamine Merrill, 1951
LWVNJ Collection
Trenton social worker and community activist Jessamine Merrill (1905-1996) served as president of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey from 1951 to 1956. Here she accepts the gavel of office from her predecessor, Grace Hopkins.
