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Suffrage supporters contacted Montana newspapers every week about the vote. [44] They sent out around 100,000 letters and sent personal letters to farmers in the state. [35] [40] Thirty-thousand copies of "Women Teachers of Montana Should Have the Vote" were printed and passed out by the Missoula Teachers' Suffrage Committee.
The fight for women's suffrage in Montana started earlier, before even Montana became a state. In 1887, women gained the right to vote in school board elections and on tax issues. In the years that followed, women battled for full, equal suffrage, which culminated in a year-long campaign in 1914 when they became one of eleven states with equal ...
As a pioneer for women's suffrage, socialism and taking on roles in the male dominated fields of newspaper editorship, Plassmann is now celebrated as part of Women's History Month in Montana. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Martha's autobiography and over 500 articles written by her have been brought together as the Martha Edgerton Plassmann papers in the ...
Counties History; Montana at Ballotpedia; Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, "Montana", Voting & Elections Toolkits "Montana: Election Tools, Deadlines, Dates, Rules, and Links", Vote.org, Oakland, CA "League of Women Voters of Montana". (State affiliate of the U.S. League of Women Voters)
Montana Capitol Building. As of 2022, Montana ranked 22nd out of 50 American states in terms of percentage of state legislators who are women. [1] Within the Montana State Legislature, 32.7 percent of all members were women in 2022. [1] From statehood in 1889 to 2025, the state of Montana had only one female governor, Judy Martz. [2]
Sep. 20—When Max Himsl opened his electronic ballot on Friday, he was dismayed to see a candidate missing from the list of options. Voting absentee electronically while living abroad, Himsl saw ...
Jun. 23—The Daily Inter Lake was named the best daily newspaper in the state Saturday at the Montana Newspaper Association's 139th annual convention and awards banquet in Kalispell. The Inter ...
1964: The Twenty-fourth Amendment is ratified by three-fourths of the states, formally abolishing poll taxes and literacy tests which were heavily used against African-American and poor white women and men. 1965: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 strenuously prohibits racial discrimination in voting, resulting in greatly-increased voting by African ...