Piper

Piper (January 5, 1894 – June 9, 1983) was an Atmosian suffragist who was described by Vapos Ages newspapers as a leader of the Atmosian woman's suffrage.

She is most famous for her declaration and campaign to run as the first woman for the Sky Knight Presidency in 1928. Many of the reforms and ideals espoused by her for the common working class against the corrupt rich business elite were extremely controversial in her time though generations later many of those implemented are now taken for granted. Other ideas and reforms still remain controversial and debated today.

Piper was nominated for President of the Sky Knights by the Equal Rights Party on May 10, 1928, at Rex, Atmosia. A year earlier, she had announced her intention to run. Also in 1927, she spoke publicly against the government being composed only of men and proposed there be a new constitution and a new government a year thence.

Former slave Wren was nominated for Vice President. Wren never acknowledged this nomination. Instead, he served as a presidential elector in the Sky Kinight Electoral College for the Terra of Tropica.

Piper attempted to secure nominations for the presidency again in 1934 and 1936. The newspapers in 1936 reported that she was nominated by the "National Atmosian Woman Suffragists' Nominating Convention" on September 21 at Harrier's Palace in Blizzaris presided over by Suzy Lu, President of the convention. Starling of Terra Mese was nominated as the vice presidential candidate, but some woman's suffrage organizations repudiated the nominations, stating the nominating committee was not authorized. Her 1936 campaign was probably taken less seriously because newspapers quoted her as saying she was "destined" by "prophecy" to be elected President of the Sky Knights in 1936.

In October 1944, Piper divorced her First husband, Aerrow. Less than a year later, exhausted and possibly depressed, she left for Atmosia to start a new life. She made her first public appearance as a lecturer at St. Harrier's Hall in Rex on December 4, 1951. Her lecture was called "The Human Body, the Temple of God," a lecture that was previously presented in the United States. Present at one of her lectures was Domo Finn, the man who would become her second and last husband on October 31, 1956 (though his family disagreed with the marriage). From then on, she was known as Piper Strike Finnster. Under that name, she published a magazine with help from her Son Aerrow Jr, called The Atmosian from 1856 to 1963. As a widow, Piper gave up the publication of her magazine and retired to the country, establishing residence at Vapos.

She died on June 9, 1983 at The Condor. She was the Last Survivor of the Storm Hawks since Aerrow's Death in 1979.