Name Ida Wise | Died 1952 | |
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Ida B. Wise (July 3, 1871–February 16, 1952) was the primary author of the Sheppard Bill in 1916 that imposed prohibition on Washington, D.C.
Wise was born in Philadelphia, PA and raised in Hamburg, Iowa. She graduated from the University of Nebraska and taught for fourteen years.
Wise joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1891. By 1900, she was a district president in the Iowa WTCU. In 1913, she became president of the Iowa Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). She served as president of the Iowa WCTU for 20 years In 1930 before becoming president of the national WCTU.
President Herbert Hoover appointed her to the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. In 1940, Wise was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt to the White House Conference on Children in a Democracy.
Wise married twice. In 1889, she married James A. Wise. The couple had one son who lived to adulthood. After the death of her first husband in 1892, Wise married Malcolm Smith in 1912. She is known as both Ida B. Wise and Ida B. Wise Smith.
A member of the Disciples of Christ, Wise taught Sunday school from the age of 12. In 1923, she was ordained as a minister, but she never served as a pastor to a congregation.
Although Wise's primary cause was temperance, she also supported women's suffrage and child welfare work.
Wise was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1977.