As the summer of 1917 was ending, President Woodrow Wilson faced a nemesis in the form of Alice Paul, a 32-year-old Quaker woman from Moorestown, N.J. The issue that divided them was giving the vote to women. Wilson claimed he personally supported suffrage but believed it was a local matter for each state to decide and used his influence to delay Paul’s attempt to have a constitutional amendment passed to give all American women the vote.