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This is a list of Wyoming suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Wyoming. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( July 2022 )
She cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in Laramie, Wyoming. [3] [4] The museum opened in 2012. [5] The Wyoming State Historical Society says Swain was "the first woman in the world to cast a ballot under laws giving women and men equal voting rights". [6] The Johnson Lummis Hunkins Plaza is outside the Wyoming House for Historic Women.
John B. Kendrick (1857–1933), governor of Wyoming (1915–1917), U.S. Senator (1917–1933) Frank E. Lucas (1876–1948), Republican Governor of Wyoming (1924–1925) Cynthia Lummis (born 1954), Republican U.S. Senator from Wyoming (since 2021); former member of both houses of the Wyoming legislature and former state treasurer
Soon after the Civil War, women gained the right to vote in Wyoming — even before the territory became the 44th state. But over the past 130 years, the state has continued to, ever so slowly ...
Pages in category "History of women in Wyoming" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Wyoming on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Dec. 2—One corner in the Wyoming State Museum is now dedicated to a critical topic. The latest exhibit added to the flagship state history museum is, unfortunately, hardly history at all.
Elinore Pruitt Stewart (born Elinore Pruitt; June 3, 1876 – October 8, 1933) was a homesteader in Wyoming, and a memoirist who between 1909 and 1914 wrote letters describing her life there to a former employer in Denver, Colorado. Those letters, which reveal an adventurous, capable, and resourceful woman of lively intelligence, were published ...