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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.
The Nineteenth Amendment vote comes down to a single vote from Senator Harry T. Burn, who is convinced to change his vote from a "Nay" to an "Aye" at the last minute after receiving a telegram from his mother, Phoebe, who reveals that she blames Wilson for her husband's death in the War but lacks the ability to vote against him ("A Letter From ...
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]
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A View of Memphis, Tennessee, 1871 The Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1872, by Harry Fenn. After the war, Tennessee adopted the Thirteenth amendment forbidding slave-holding or involuntary servitude on February 22, 1865; ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on July 18, 1866; and was the first state readmitted to the ...
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Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibited states and the federal government from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nineteenth Amendment .