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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
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.
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.
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 ...
The name "Wyoming" was used by Representative J. M. Ashley of Ohio, who introduced the Ashley Bill to Congress to provide a "temporary government for the territory of Wyoming". [18] The name was made famous by the 1809 poem Gertrude of Wyoming by Thomas Campbell . [ 19 ] "
"Cattle Kate" Ellen Liddy "Ella" Watson (July 2, 1860 [1] – July 20, 1889) was a pioneer of Wyoming who became known as Cattle Kate, an outlaw of the Old West, although the characterization is a dubious one, as subsequent research has tended to see her as a much maligned victim of a self-styled land baron.
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.