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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 its woman suffrage law even when that law could have jeopardized the Wyoming Territory's application for statehood. In 1890, Wyoming ...
The Wyoming Territory's enfranchisement of women to vote in 1869 made Morris's unprecedented appointment possible. The clerk's telegraph to the world in part read: Wyoming, the youngest and one of the richest Territories in the United States, gave equal rights to women in actions as well as words. [10]
The legislation passed by the Wyoming Territorial Legislature giving women the right to vote. The first session of the Wyoming territorial legislature occurred from October 12, to December 10, 1869. The upper house Council met in the Thomas McLeland Building and the House of Representatives met in the Arcade Building in Cheyenne, Wyoming. [5]
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 ...
On December 10, 1869, Wyoming Territory granted women the right to vote, becoming the first future U.S. state to extend suffrage to women. Wyoming was also the home of many other firsts for U.S. women in politics. The first time women served on a jury was in Wyoming (Laramie in 1870).
Seraph Young, the niece of Brigham Young, was the first woman to vote under a women's equal suffrage law in the United States, due to a municipal election held on February 14, 1869 (Wyoming had recognized women's right to vote earlier that year, but had not yet held an election). [66]
1869: The territory of Wyoming is the first to grant unrestricted suffrage to women. [ 3 ] 1869 : The suffrage movement splits into the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association .
On July 25, 1868, President Andrew Johnson signed the Wyoming Organic Act creating the Wyoming Territory using lands from the Dakota, Idaho, and Utah territories, and on April 17, 1869, the territorial government was organized. [3] In 1869 the territory granted women's suffrage for all elections in an attempt to attract new settlers. A later ...