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1875: Women in Michigan and Minnesota win the right to vote in school elections. [3] 1878: A federal amendment to grant women the right to vote is introduced for the first time by Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California. Though initially unsuccessful, the amendment would eventually become the 19th Amendment. [3] [12]
White and African American women in the Territory of Alaska earn the right to vote. [34] Women in Illinois earn the right to vote in presidential elections. [28] 1914. Nevada and Montana women earn the right to vote. [23] 1917. Women in Arkansas earn the right to vote in primary elections. [23] Women in Rhode Island earn the right to vote in ...
Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment. The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when early ...
Women could vote from 1945, but only if literate. Restrictions on women's suffrage were lifted in 1965. [87] Guinea: 1958 Guinea-Bissau: 1977 Guyana: 1953 Haiti: 1950 Kingdom of Hawaii: 1840–1852 Universal suffrage was established in 1840, which meant that women could vote.
However women could not stand for election to parliament until 1919, when three women stood (unsuccessfully); see 1919 in New Zealand. The colony of South Australia allowed women to both vote and stand for election in 1895. [4] In Sweden, conditional women's suffrage was granted during the Age of Liberty between 1718 and 1772. [5]
All states that were successful in securing full voting rights for women before 1920 were located in the West. [13] [25] A federal amendment intended to grant women the right to vote was introduced in the U.S. Senate for the first time in 1878 by Aaron A. Sargent, a Senator from California who was a women's suffrage advocate. [26]
For reasons that are not known, Mary Jarrett White was the only woman who did actually register 6 months before the election took place, even though at the time the amendment had not been ratified. [3] This made White the only woman to vote in the 1920 election, and the first woman to vote in the state of Georgia. [4]
By the end of 1919, women effectively could vote for president in states with 326 electoral votes out of a total of 531. [259] Political leaders who became convinced of the inevitability of women's suffrage began to pressure local and national legislators to support it so that their respective party could claim credit for it in future elections ...