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  2. Women's suffrage in Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    The first state constitutional convention for Wisconsin met on October 5, 1846. [1] Delegates to the convention proposed giving African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants in the process of becoming citizens the right to vote. [2] [3] James Magone of Milwaukee proposed that the word "male" be removed from the qualifications for a voter. [4]

  3. Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to vote. The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the ...

  4. Constitution of Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    The first article of the Wisconsin constitution outlines the legal rights of state citizens. In addition to reaffirming the rights guaranteed in the United States Bill of Rights, Article I of the Wisconsin Constitution offers additional guarantees to its citizens. Among these are sections which prohibit slavery, prohibit imprisonment for debt ...

  5. When did women gain the right to vote? The history of the ...

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    19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment. The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848 ...

  6. Timeline of women's suffrage in Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    Old Wisconsin Flag, Theodore Youmans, 1915. This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Wisconsin. Women's suffrage efforts began before the Civil War. The first Wisconsin state constitutional convention in 1846 discussed both women's suffrage and African-American suffrage. In the end, a more conservative constitution was adopted by Wisconsin.

  7. Wisconsin voters reject ballot questions restricting governor ...

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    A majority of Wisconsin voters must vote in favor of a constitutional amendment in order for it to go into effect. ... to encourage a "no" vote. A coalition of 16 voting rights ... and misleading ...

  8. Wisconsin voters pass 'eligibility to vote' referendum in ...

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    Wisconsin voters approved a statewide referendum question on the Nov. 5 ballot that changes the state constitution to say that "only" U.S. citizens can vote in Wisconsin's elections.

  9. 54th Wisconsin Legislature - Wikipedia

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    August 18, 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote, was ratified by the requisite number of states to come into force. September 6, 1920: Attorney Burr W. Jones was appointed a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court by Governor Emanuel L. Philipp , to fill the vacancy caused by the ...