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Women's rights organizations in other western states looked to Wyoming as a model. [25] Women had held office in a range of capacities. [2] In 1880, Susan Johnson was appointed postmaster in Cheyenne and Mary Bellamy became the first woman to serve in a state legislature. Wyoming women exercised their right to vote: in the 1880s nearly 90% of ...
The constitution was approved by a statewide vote of 6,272 to 1,923 on November 5, 1889. It was last amended in 2024. It was the first constitution in the United States which explicitly gave women the right to vote (though an earlier New Jersey constitution gave women who owned property the right to vote because of an ambiguity in its text ...
(Reuters) - A Wyoming judge on Monday ruled that two anti-abortion laws passed by the state legislature violate Wyoming's constitution, keeping abortion legal in the state for now, local media ...
Apr. 10—CHEYENNE — Everyone knows Wyoming earned its nickname as The Equality State because it was the first state to grant women the right to vote in 1890. What might not be as well known ...
Soon after the Civil War, women gained the right to vote in Wyoming — even before the territory became the 44th state. But over the past 130 years, the state has continued to, ever so slowly ...
California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852
Both male and female citizens of this state shall equally enjoy all civil, political and religious rights and privileges.ta - Wyoming Constitution, Articles I and VI (1890). Bohemia: The first secondary education school for females in Prague.
A state judge knocked down two laws restricting abortion in Wyoming on Monday, ruling that they violated protections in the state's constitution that allow patients to determine the healthcare ...