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A U.S. territory in 1869, Wyoming's first territorial legislature voted to give women the right to vote and to hold public office. [2] A legislature made entirely of men passed the woman's suffrage bill in 1869 entitled "An Act to Grant to the Women of Wyoming Territory the Right of Suffrage, and to Hold Office.” [3][2] The territory retained ...
Just look at Wyoming, where women gained the right to vote all the way back in 1869, a full 20 years before the territory became the country’s 44th state in 1890, and more than 50 years before ...
Esther Hobart Morris (August 8, 1814 – April 2, 1902) [a] was an American judge who was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States. [1] She began her tenure as justice in South Pass City, Wyoming, on February 14, 1870, serving a term of nearly nine months. [1][2] The Sweetwater County Board of County Commissioners appointed ...
The focus turns to working at the state level. Wyoming renewed general women's suffrage, becoming the first state to allow women to vote. [6][3][8] 1890: A suffrage campaign loses in South Dakota. [6] 1893: After a campaign led by Carrie Chapman Catt, Colorado men vote for women's suffrage.
First woman to vote in a United States general election. Louisa Ann Swain (née Gardner; 1801 – January 25, 1880) was the first woman in the United States to vote in a general election after the repeal of women's suffrage in New Jersey in 1807. She cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in Laramie, Wyoming. [1][2]
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 ...
Feminism. Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [2] The demand for women's suffrage began to ...
The Wyoming House For Historic Women, also known as Wyoming Women's History House [1] is a museum in downtown Laramie, Wyoming, United States, which celebrates the achievements of 13 women from the state of Wyoming. [2] It was established by the Louisa Swain Foundation, which honors Louisa Swain, the first woman in the United States to vote in ...