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One of the most active leaders in the anti-suffrage movement in Texas was Pauline Kleiber Wells who was from Brownsville, Texas. [40] Pauline Wells was married to a powerful Democratic Party "boss," James B. Wells, Jr. [40] Pauline Wells began to campaign against women's suffrage in Texas in 1912. [40]
March Pauline Wells from Brownsville started the Texas Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. [29] The Texas Woman Suffrage Association is renamed the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA). [2] The annual convention was held in Dallas. [24] A Texas chapter of the suffrage group, the National Woman's Party is created. [3]
1890: The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Its first president is Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The focus turns to working at the state level. Wyoming renewed general women's suffrage, becoming the first state to allow women to vote. [6] [3] [8]
Women in Texas did not have any voting rights when Texas was a republic (1836-1846) or after it became a state in 1846. [394] Suffrage for Texas women was first raised at the Constitutional Convention of 1868-1869 when Republican Titus H. Mundine of Burleson County proposed that the vote be given to all qualified persons regardless of gender. [394]
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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] But it was not until the year 1919 that equality was achieved, where women's votes were valued the same as men's.
[178] [179] Although the Catholic Church did not take an official position on suffrage, very few of its leaders supported it, and some of its leaders, such as Cardinal Gibbons, made their opposition clear. [180] [181] The New York Times after first supporting suffrage reversed itself and issued stern warnings. A 1912 editorial predicted that ...
The Republic of Texas had formed in 1836, after breaking away from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. The following year, an ambassador from Texas approached the United States about the possibility of becoming an American state. Fearing a war with Mexico, which did not recognize Texas independence, the United States declined the offer. [1]