Georgianna Offutt
{{short description|American clubwoman and suffragist}}{{Infobox officeholder
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1868|08|21}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1949|10|07|1868|08|21}}
| birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| occupation = Podiatrist
}}
Georgianna K. Offutt (August 21, 1868 – October 7, 1949) was an American podiatrist, clubwoman, and suffragist, and the second vice-president of Alameda County League of Colored Women Voters.{{cite web |last1=Raab |first1=Eleanor |title=Biography of Georgianna K. Offutt, 1868-1949 |url=https://search.alexanderstreet.com/embed/token/07c6goj5c9i7ocpo74pj8c9o |website=Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists |publisher=Alexander Street |access-date=18 January 2021}}
Offutt was a practicing podiatrist in the Los Angeles area for 25 years.{{cite web | title=Negro who's who in California| website=Internet Archive | date=2020-06-10 | url=https://archive.org/details/negrowhoswhoinca00losa | access-date=2021-01-18}} She was the president of the local Sojourner Truth Club, and, along with Emma Lou Sayers and Dr. Vada J. Somerville, helped create a voter education program for Black voters. She faced prejudice in medical circles and was outspoken about these difficulties; she wrote a newspaper article for the California Eagle called "Negro Woman in the Medical World" giving testimonials about the poor treatment she and other Black women received.
Personal life
Offutt was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended Lincoln University in Jefferson City, and then worked as a teacher.{{Cite news |title=No Longer Forgotten |volume=2 |pages=13 |work=National Women's History Alliance Newsletter |url=https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/Women-Win-the-Vote-Gazette-Volume-2.pdf}} She married Roddum Kenner in 1890, with whom she had a son, Byron. Following Kenner's death in 1893, she moved to California. While in California, attended the College of Chiropody in San Francisco, California where she received a doctorate in Orthopedic and Surgical Chiropody in 1922. In 1897 she married Boone Offutt; he died in 1935. They had one daughter, Ruby, in 1900.{{cite news |title=A Tribute to the late Ruby Wheeler |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/692936460/ |access-date=18 January 2021 |work=California Eagle |date=September 21, 1934 |location=Los Angeles, California |page=4}}
Offutt died in Los Angeles on October 7, 1949.
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