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In 1912 women gained suffrage in the state, eight years before the country as a whole. Signing of Arizona statehood bill in 1912. Arizona's first Congressman was Carl Hayden (1877–1972). [47] He was the son of a Yankee merchant who had moved to Tempe because he needed dry heat for his bad lungs.
Mollie Fly retired in 1912, but three years later a fire destroyed her studio. [9] She then moved to Los Angeles, where she died in 1925. Many of the Flys' negatives had been destroyed in the two fires, but Fly donated her remaining collection of photographic negatives to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. [ 3 ]
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When Arizona became a state on February 14, 1912, an attempt to legislate a women's suffrage amendment to the Arizona Constitution failed. Frances Munds mounted a successful ballot initiative campaign. On November 5, 1912, women's suffrage passed in Arizona. In 1913, the voter registration books were opened to women.
Madge Udall in a 1913 woman suffrage parade. The movement for women's suffrage in Arizona began in the late 1800s. After women's suffrage was narrowly voted down at the 1891 Arizona Constitutional Convention, prominent suffragettes such as Josephine Brawley Hughes and Laura M. Johns formed the Arizona Suffrage Association and began touring the state campaigning for women's right to vote.
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The U.S. territory of Arizona became a U.S. state on February 14, 1912. Subcategories. ... Pah-Ute County, Arizona Territory; Peralta Stones; Pima Revolt (1751)
February 14, 1912 Arizona becomes 48th state February 26, 1919 Grand Canyon National Park is created November 3, 1964 Barry Goldwater loses the U.S. presidential election September 21, 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court