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  2. Harry T. Burn - Wikipedia

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    Harry Thomas Burn Sr. (November 12, 1895 – February 19, 1977) [1] was a Republican member of the Tennessee General Assembly for McMinn County, Tennessee. Burn became the youngest member of the state legislature when he was elected at the age of twenty-two.

  3. File:Letter to Harry Burn from Mother.pdf - Wikipedia

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    He credits the influence of his mother for changing his vote to support female suffrage. His vote broke the tie in the Tennessee legislature, causing Tennessee to pass the amendment. Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, making it the law of the land.

  4. Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    On August 18, 1920, Tennessee narrowly approved the Nineteenth Amendment, with 50 of 99 members of the Tennessee House of Representatives voting yes. [ 49 ] [ 60 ] This provided the final ratification necessary to add the amendment to the Constitution, [ 61 ] making the United States the twenty-seventh country in the world to give women the ...

  5. List of Tennessee suffragists - Wikipedia

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    Abby Crawford Milton (1881–1991) – traveled throughout Tennessee making speeches and organizing suffrage leagues in small communities; in 1920, she, along with Anne Dallas Dudley and Catherine Talty Kenny, led the campaign in Tennessee to approve ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution [6] [7]

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  7. Suffs - Wikipedia

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    Suffs is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Shaina Taub, based on suffragists and the American women's suffrage movement, focusing primarily on the historical events leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920 that gave some women the right to vote.

  8. Banks Turner - Wikipedia

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    Banks Pearson Turner (September 14, 1889 – January 11, 1953) was a Democratic member of the Tennessee General Assembly for Gibson, Tennessee.He is best remembered for action taken to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment during his first term in the legislature. [1]

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