<Tr> <Th> Political party </Th> <Td> People's Party </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Charles L. Lease (m . 1873--1902) </Td> </Tr> <P> Mary Elizabeth Lease (September 11, 1850--October 29, 1933) was an American lecturer, writer, and political activist . She was an advocate of the suffrage movement as well as temperance but she was best known for her work with the Populist party . She was born to Irish immigrants Joseph P. and Mary Elizabeth (Murray) Clyens, in Ridgway, Pennsylvania . In 1895, she wrote The Problem of Civilization Solved, and in 1896, she moved to New York City where she edited the democratic newspaper, World . In addition, she worked as an editor for the National Encyclopedia of American Biography . Mary Elizabeth Lease was also known as Mary Ellen Lease . She was called "Queen Mary" (after the British Queen consort, Mary of Teck), "Mother Lease" by her supporters and "Mary Yellin" by her enemies . Lease died in Callicoon, New York . </P> <P> At the age of 20, she moved to Kansas to teach school in Osage Mission (St. Paul, Kansas), and three years later she married Charles L. Lease, a local pharmacist . They lost their Kingman County farm in the Panic of 1874 and moved to Denison, Texas where she studied law . The Leases and their four children later moved to Wichita, Kansas, where she took a leading role in civic and social activities . </P>

Was the most famous female orator of the farmer's alliance and populist party in the late 1800s