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April 6: Fifteen women led by Ellen Martin legally vote in Lombard, Illinois using a loophole in their city charter. [15] June 19: Women gain the right to vote in school elections with a School Suffrage law. [15] 1892. The Illinois Supreme Court decides that the School Suffrage law is constitutional. [16] 1893
Women in Illinois were now able to vote for presidential electors and any local office not named by the state constitution. [28] Illinois became the first state to the east of the Mississippi River to give women the right to vote for the President. [28] Unfortunately, the fight to give Illinois women the vote had depleted the funds of ...
Myra Colby Bradwell (February 12, 1831 – February 14, 1894) was an American publisher and political activist.She attempted in 1869 to become the first woman to be admitted to the Illinois bar to practice law, but was denied admission by the Illinois Supreme Court in 1870 and the United States Supreme Court in 1873, in rulings upholding a separate women's sphere. [1]
Illinois Equal Suffrage Association pamphlet, 1903. Alpha Suffrage Club, formed in 1913. [1] Chicago Equal Suffrage Association, formerly the North Side Branch of IESA, created in 1910. [2] Chicago Political Equality League, formed in 1894. [3] [4] Chicago Teachers' Federation. [5] Chicago Woman's Club. [6] Cook County Woman's Suffrage Society. [7]
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In time for the 1911 election the Illinois legislature passed a law which scheduled Chicago mayoral party primaries for the last Tuesday of February. [6] On June 26, 1913, Illinois became the first state east of the Mississippi River to grant women's suffrage. [7] 1915 was the first Chicago mayoral election to be held following this change. [8]
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1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.