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Victoria Woodhull was the first female to run for President of the United States, nominated by the Equal Rights Party, with a platform supporting women's suffrage and equal rights. 1873: The trial of Susan B. Anthony is held. She is denied a trial by jury and loses her case. She never pays the $100 fine for voting.
Catholic women were reluctant to vote in the early 1920s, but they registered in very large numbers for the 1928 election – the first in which Catholicism was a major issue. [280] A few women were elected to office, but none became especially prominent during this time period.
Washington state restores women's right to vote through the state constitution. [26] 1911. California women earn the right to vote following the passage of California Proposition 4. [27] 1912. Women in Arizona and Kansas earn the right to vote. [27] Women in Oregon earn the right to vote. [13] 1913
It wasn’t until 1920, after the passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment, that women were finally allowed to vote. These days, women are among the most politically engaged groups in the U ...
They were the first women voted for as candidates for president at the national convention of a major American political party. [9] Former Wyoming Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross was a candidate for vice president at the 1928 Democratic National Convention. Her name was mentioned as a potential candidate as early as 1927, and the possibility of her ...
After the war ended in 1918, American women were no longer allowed to serve in the military, except as nurses, until 1942. [208] However, in 1920 a provision of the Army Reorganization Act granted military nurses the status of officers with "relative rank" from second lieutenant to major (but not full rights and privileges). [119]
The colony of South Australia allowed women to both vote and stand for election in 1895. [4] In Sweden, conditional women's suffrage was granted during the Age of Liberty between 1718 and 1772. [5] But it was not until the year 1919 that equality was achieved, where women's votes were valued the same as men's.
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.