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  2. Harry T. Burn - Wikipedia

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    Burn is portrayed by Peter Berinato in the 2004 film Iron Jawed Angels. Winter Wheat, a musical about the ratification of the 19th Amendment in Tennessee, premiered in 2016 after its original version had a limited run in 2014; Harry Burn, his mother Febb, and his younger brother Jack, are major characters. The play was performed again in 2020.

  3. File:Letter to Harry Burn from Mother.pdf - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    On August 18, 1920, Tennessee narrowly approved the Nineteenth Amendment, with 50 of 99 members of the Tennessee House of Representatives voting yes. [ 49 ] [ 60 ] This provided the final ratification necessary to add the amendment to the Constitution, [ 61 ] making the United States the twenty-seventh country in the world to give women the ...

  5. 10 things you didn't know about the Constitution - AOL

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    4) You have a 0.23% chance of getting an amendment passed by Congress Since 1789, over 11,600 amendments to the Constitution have been introduced to Congress. Including the Bill of Rights, only 27 ...

  6. Silent Sentinels - Wikipedia

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    It was officially ratified on August 26, 1920, shortly after ratification by Tennessee, the thirty-sixth state to do so. The Tennessee legislature ratified the 19th Amendment by the single vote of a legislator ( Harry T. Burn ) who had opposed the amendment but changed his position after his mother sent him a telegram saying "Dear Son, Hurrah ...

  7. Suffs - Wikipedia

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    Suffs is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Shaina Taub, based on suffragists and the American women's suffrage movement, focusing primarily on the historical events leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920 that gave some women the right to vote.

  8. Banks Turner - Wikipedia

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    Banks Pearson Turner (September 14, 1889 – January 11, 1953) was a Democratic member of the Tennessee General Assembly for Gibson, Tennessee.He is best remembered for action taken to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment during his first term in the legislature. [1]

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