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The first women's rights convention was the Seneca Falls Convention, a regional event held on July 19 and 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls in the Finger Lakes region of New York. [3] Five women called the convention, four of whom were Quaker social activists, including the well-known Lucretia Mott.
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 ...
1887: In Kansas, women win the right to vote in municipal elections. [3] 1887: Rhode Island becomes the first eastern state to vote on a women's suffrage referendum, but it does not pass. [3] 1888–1889: Wyoming had already granted women voting and suffrage since 1869–70; now they insist that they maintain suffrage if Wyoming joins the Union.
During 1912 the next constitutional convention in Ohio was held and women in the state were already energized from California's women's suffrage win. [224] [213] During the convention, a women's suffrage referendum was passed. [225] Activists campaigned heavily both for and against the women's suffrage referendum.
The 1972 Democratic National Convention was the presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party for the 1972 presidential election. It was held at Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach , Florida, also the host city of the Republican National Convention that year, on July 10–13, 1972.
Editorial: At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, three women gave emotional speeches on Monday about the consequences of taking reproductive rights away.
Women have been running for president for more than 150 years, starting with Victoria Woodhull’s 1872 bid as a candidate of the Equal Rights Party. ... She has won at least 69 million votes ...
If the party won the state where the convention was held — but not necessarily that city itself — the box is shaded. (For example, while the 1948 Democratic, Progressive and Republican conventions were all held in Philadelphia, the city itself narrowly voted for Democratic President Harry Truman, while the state of Pennsylvania as a whole ...