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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The following elections occurred in the year 1867. North America Canada. 1867 Canadian federal election ...
The Dorr Rebellion takes place in Rhode Island because men who did not own land could not vote. [15] 1843. Rhode Island drafts a new constitution extending voting rights to any free men regardless of whether they own property, provided they pay a $1 poll tax. Naturalized citizens are still not eligible to vote unless they own property. [15] 1848
The District of Columbia Suffrage Act was an 1867 federal law that granted voting rights to all males over the age of 21 in the District of Columbia, United States.The franchise was withheld from "welfare or charity cases, those under guardianship, those convicted of major crimes and those who had voluntarily sheltered Confederate troops or spies during the Civil War", but there were no race ...
On 26 November 1867, she became the first woman known to have voted at a parliamentary contest since the 1832 Reform Act had specifically limited the franchise to 'male persons'. [1] The returning officer allowed Maxwell to vote at Chorlton Town Hall in a by-election. Maxwell cast her vote for Jacob Bright who supported
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The 1866–67 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 4, 1866, and September 6, 1867. They occurred during President Andrew Johnson's term just one year after the American Civil War ended when the Union defeated the Confederacy.
On January 15, 1867, Simon Cameron was elected to the United States Senate by the Pennsylvania General Assembly for the third time; it had previously chosen him in 1845 and 1857. The legislature voted for Cameron over the incumbent , Senator Edgar Cowan , who, though a Republican , was endorsed by the Democratic legislative caucus .
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).