{{short description|American suffragist}} {{Infobox person |name =Lucy Barrow McIntire |image = |caption= |birth_name = Lucy Barrow McIntire |birth_date = {{birth date|1886|07|11}} |birth_place =[[Athens, Georgia]], U.S. |death_date = {{dda|1967|11|04|1886|07|11}} |death_place = |resting_place = [[Laurel Grove Cemetery]] |party = |occupation = |spouse = Francis "Frank" Percival McIntire |children = 6 |relations= |alma_mater= }} '''Lucy Barrow McIntire''' (July 11, 1886 – November 4, 1967), also called '''Miss Lucy''', was an American suffragist, activist, preservationist, actress, and poet.
==Early life== Lucy Barrow Davenport was born in [[Athens, Georgia]], on July 11, 1886, to the prominent Davenport family.<ref name="bio-dhm">{{cite web |title=Bio: Lucy Barrow McIntire: 1886 –1967 |url=http://www.davenporthousemuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/LucyMcIntire.pdf |website=Davenport House Museum |accessdate=8 September 2020}}</ref> She married attorney Francis Percival McIntire; the couple moved to Francis' hometown of Savannah and had six children. The oldest, James William, was born in 1910;<ref name="james-interview-gsu">{{cite web |last1=Paton |first1=Christopher Ann |title=James William McIntire oral history interview |url=https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/merceroh/id/47/ |publisher=Georgia State University Library |accessdate=8 September 2020 |date=November 4, 1997}}</ref> Francis Jr. on July 19, 1921;<ref name="fpmj-aam">{{cite web |title=Francis Percival McIntire Jr |url=http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/246289 |website=American Air Museum |accessdate=8 September 2020 |date=May 27, 2020}}</ref> and the youngest, Pope, was born in 1924.<ref name="ksu-pope-interview">{{cite web |last1=Hugh |first1=Gordon L. |title=Interview with Pope Barrow McIntire |url=https://soar.kennesaw.edu/handle/11360/1880 |publisher=Kennesaw State University |accessdate=8 September 2020}}</ref>
==Social and volunteer work== While living in Savannah, McIntire co-founded local chapters of the [[Junior League of Savannah]] and the [[League of Women Voters]]; she was the first president of the Junior League of Savannah, and also served as president of both the [[Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs]] and the [[Savannah Suffrage Association]].<ref name="bio-dhm"/>
McIntire helped to establish a free lunch program within the [[Chatham County School District]], and she was the first woman to serve on Savannah's Metropolitan Planning Commission.
Following her work supporting presidential candidate [[Woodrow Wilson]], McIntire was appointed the first Georgia Committeewoman on the [[Democratic National Committee]]. During the 1930s, she served as a field supervisor for the [[Works Progress Administration]], and after the outbreak of [[World War II]] she worked as a service director for the [[American Red Cross]] and founded the [[U.S.O.–Soldiers Social Service of Savannah]].<ref name="bio-dhm"/>
McIntire was involved with the conversion of the [[Isaiah Davenport House]] into a museum; she is Isiah Davenport's great-great-great-granddaughter. McIntire cut the ribbon at the museum's official opening ceremony on March 9, 1963.<ref name="sn-davenport-house">{{cite web |last1=Taggart |first1=Gene |title=From the Archives: Savannah’s Davenport House |url=https://www.savannahnow.com/photogallery/GA/20200413/NEWS/413009999/PH/1 |website=Savannah Now |accessdate=8 September 2020 |date=April 13, 2020}}</ref>
===Other organizations co-founded=== * Chatham Nursing Home * Historic Savannah Foundation (1955)<ref name="sav-mag-lebos-2019">{{cite web |last1=Lebos |first1=Jessica Leigh |title=Old Savannah: Renewed Purpose |url=https://www.savannahmagazine.com/renewed-purpose/ |publisher=Savannah Magazine |accessdate=8 September 2020 |date=November 23, 2019}}</ref><ref name="sn-davenport-house"/> * Juvenile Protection Association * [[Savannah Country Day School]] * Savannah Health Center * Savannah Nursery School * Savannah's Christmas Stocking * Women's Relief Committee
==Personal interests== McIntire was involved in [[amateur theatre]]. In 1928, the Town Theatre in Savannah held a contest for the best one-act play; the winner was ''The Hero'', written by Frances Hargis, in which McIntire portrayed the widowed daughter of a Civil War veteran. Her son was played by [[Johnny Mercer]], whom she "advised{{nbsp}}... to give songwriting and acting a try".<ref name="eskew-mercer-2013">{{cite book |last1=Eskew |first1=Glenn T. |title=Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World |date=2013 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |location=Athens, Georgia |isbn=9780820333304}}</ref> The production traveled to New York City to compete in the [[Belasco Theatre (Broadway)|Belasco Theatre]]'s sixth annual tournament, performing in both the Frolic Theatre (May 11, 1928) and the old [[New Amsterdam Theatre]] before placing second.
McIntire also helped found the [[Georgia Poetry Society]] and won prizes for her own work.
Regarding her work with Historic Savannah Association, McIntire wrote that Savannah was "one of the most beautiful cities and unique in the United States", lamenting that "[y]ear after year architecturally beautiful homes and historic structures were going down".<ref name="bio-dhm"/>
==Death and legacy== The city of Savannah named McIntire Woman of the Year in 1955. In 1958, she received the [[Groves Award]]<ref name="bio-dhm"/> and the [[Oglethorpe Trophy]] for her preservation work.<ref name="toledano-trust-savannah">{{cite book |last1=Toledano |first1=Roulhac |title=The National Trust Guide to Savannah |date=1997 |publisher=Preservation Press. John Wiley & Sons |location=New York |isbn=9780471155683}}</ref>
McIntire died on November 4, 1967, in Savannah, Georgia. She is buried at [[Laurel Grove Cemetery]].
She was inducted into the Georgia Women of Achievement Hall of Fame in 1997.<ref name=GeorgiaWomen>{{cite web|title=Lucy Barrow McIntire|url=http://www.georgiawomen.org/2010/10/mcintire-lucy-barrow/|publisher=Georgia Women of Achievement|date=March 1997|accessdate=August 9, 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713095227/http://www.georgiawomen.org/2010/10/mcintire-lucy-barrow/|archivedate=July 13, 2013}}</ref>
McIntire is a character in [[Michael Ching]]'s 2017 opera ''[[Anna Hunter, the Spirit of Savannah]]'',<ref name="op-am">{{cite web |title=ANNA HUNTER, the spirit of Savannah |url=https://www.operaamerica.org/Applications/nawd/newworks/details.aspx?id=1816 |website=Opera America |accessdate=8 September 2020}}</ref> which premiered in Savannah; the role was originated by Legera Danielides.<ref name="Legera-Danielides">{{cite web |title=Bio |url=https://www.legeradanielides.com/bio |website=Legera Danielides |accessdate=8 September 2020}}</ref>
==Poetry== * {{cite book |last1=McIntire |first1=Lucy Barrow |title=Three Islands |date=1923 |oclc=1843623 |publisher=Poetry Society of Georgia}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Find a Grave|95937572}}
{{Georgia Women of Achievement}}
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