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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.
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.
Tennessee was the last needed state to ratify the Amendment. But it only passed after a Tennessee legislator, Harry Burn, changed his vote to "yes" after he got a scolding letter from his mother.
The year 2020 marks the centennial of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, as well as the 150th anniversary of the first women voting in Utah, which was the first state in the nation where women cast a ballot. [143] An annual celebration of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, known as Women's Equality Day, began on August 26, 1973. [144]
Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [2]
The amendment's advocates say that it will allow parents' rights to direct the upbringing of their children, protected from federal interference, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Amendment was first proposed during the 110th Congress as House Joint Resolution 97 in July 2008, but no action was taken during that ...
Tennessee was the state that put the 19th Amendment, allowing women to vote, over the top, and the ratification struggle convulsed the city in August 1920. On March 1, 1941, W47NV began operations in Nashville, as the first fully licensed commercial FM radio station in the United States.
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