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The Senate established the select committee on January 9, 1882, when it approved a resolution offered by Senator George Hoar of Massachusetts.The committee was directed to consider "all petitions, bills, and resolves asking for the extension of suffrage to women or the removal of their legal disabilities."
1913: The Senate votes on a women's suffrage amendment, but it does not pass. [3] 1914: Nevada grants women suffrage. [3] 1914: Montana grants women suffrage. [3] 1914: The Congressional Union alienates leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association by campaigning against anti-suffrage Democrats in the congressional elections. [3]
A federal amendment intended to grant women the right to vote was introduced in the U.S. Senate for the first time in 1878 by Aaron A. Sargent, a Senator from California who was a women's suffrage advocate. [26]
Between 1870 and 1910, the suffrage movement conducted 480 campaigns in 33 states just to have the issue of women's suffrage brought before the voters, and those campaigns resulted in only 17 instances of the issue actually being placed on the ballot. [154] These efforts led to women's suffrage in two states, Colorado and Idaho.
Around the same time, there was also another group of women who supported the 15th amendment and they called themselves American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The American Women Suffrage Association was founded by Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who were more focused on gaining access at a local level. [52]
A bipartisan pair of female lawmakers is leading an effort in the Senate to bring a monument marking women’s suffrage to the National Mall. Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Marsha Blackburn (R ...
“Around the country we have seen men — biological men who identify as women — take up spaces and medals in athletics meant for actual women,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D ...
The pro-suffrage side finally secured a women's suffrage amendment, and Kansas became the eighth state to allow for full suffrage for women. [169] Suffrage was passed in Kansas largely spurred by a speech, the first Kansas state resolution endorsing woman's suffrage, made by Judge Granville Pearl Aikman at a Republican state convention. [ 170 ]