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Wyoming had the first female court bailiff (Mary Atkinson, Laramie, in 1870), and the country's first female justice of the peace (Esther Hobart Morris, South Pass City, in 1870). Wyoming became the first state in the Union to elect a female governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross, who was elected in 1924 and took office in January 1925. [21]
The first session of the Wyoming Territorial Legislature meets in Cheyenne. The legislature passes and Territorial Governor Campbell signs an act to re-incorporate the Town of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, and an act granting white women the right to vote, the first U.S. state or territory to grant suffrage to women. December 1
Wyoming was the first state to allow women the right to vote (not counting New Jersey, which had allowed it until 1807), and the right to assume elected office, as well as the first state to elect a female governor. In honor of this part of its history, its most common nickname is "The Equality State" and its official state motto is "Equal Rights".
Soon after the Civil War, women gained the right to vote in Wyoming — even before the territory became the 44th state. But over the past 130 years, the state has continued to, ever so slowly ...
Campbell was born in Salem, Ohio, and attended public school in Ohio. [2] As a young man, he was an attendee of the 1850 Ohio Women's Rights Convention. [3] In 1861, he joined the Union Army in the Civil War, during which time he served as a publicity writer and later as adjutant general on Major General John M. Schofield's staff. [4]
The Territory of Wyoming was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 25, 1868, [1] until July 10, 1890, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Wyoming. Cheyenne was the territorial capital. The boundaries of the Wyoming Territory were identical to those of the modern State of Wyoming.
An enlargeable map of the United States after the admission of Wyoming to the Union on July 10, 1890. An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since Hawaiʻi was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959. The following outline traces the territorial evolution of the U.S. State of Wyoming.
Harriet Elizabeth Byrd (1926–2015), first African American elected to the Wyoming Legislature [2] John Allen Campbell (1835–1880), first governor of the Wyoming Territory (1869–1875) Joseph M. Carey (1845–1924), governor of Wyoming, first U.S. Senator from Wyoming