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The History of Washington, Idaho and Montana (1845–1889) Vol XXXI. San Francisco, CA: The History Company. Fogarty, Kate Hammond (1916). The Story of Montana. New York: A. S. Barnes Company. Hamilton, James McClellan. From Wilderness to Statehood: A History of Montana, 1805–1900 Archived 2012-07-26 at the Wayback Machine (Bindfords & Mort ...
Montana suffragists campaign for Votes for Women, November 2, 1914. The women's suffrage movement in Montana started while it was still a territory. The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was an early organizer that supported suffrage in the state, arriving in 1883.
Rankin returned to Montana and rose through the ranks of suffrage organizations, becoming the president of the Montana Women's Suffrage Association and the national field secretary of NAWSA. [14] In February 1911, she became the first woman to speak before the Montana legislature, arguing in support of enfranchisement for women in her home ...
Chief Eagle Cap signs a petition at the Montana League of Women Voters booth at the Montana State Fair in Helena. This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Montana. The fight for women's suffrage in Montana started earlier, before even Montana became a state. In 1887, women gained the right to vote in school board elections and on tax issues ...
Laura E. Howey (née, Spencer; 1851–1911) was an American educator, librarian, and temperance leader.She taught at Harlem Springs College (Harlem Springs, Ohio) and Montana Wesleyan University (Helena, Montana), and served as President of the Montana State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) (1885–90).
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The first woman to run for Attorney General in Montana was Ella Knowles. [19] Following her successful lobbying of the 1889 Montana Legislature to allow women to take the bar exam, Knowles became be first lawyer in the state of Montana and the first female notary. She was the first woman to run for Montana Attorney General on the 1892 populist ...
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