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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. In the years that followed, women battled for full, equal suffrage, which culminated in a year-long campaign in 1914 when they became one of eleven states with equal ...
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.
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 ...
The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company. Larson, T. A. (Winter 1973). "Montana Women and the Battle for the Ballot". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 23 (1): 24– 41. JSTOR 4517748. Ward, Doris Buck (1974). The Winning of Woman Suffrage in Montana (PDF) (Master of Arts in History thesis). Montana State ...
Montana Women's Prison: Check out the "Talk" page for some suggested improvements Women in Red: This is a WikiProject specific to building (and improving) Wikipedia pages for women who aren't represented. As of November 2024 their Redlist Index does not have a page assigned to Montana. List of women cookbook writers
The Montana Women's Prison is located in Billings, Montana, United States.It houses roughly 240 female prisoners. [1] The warden is Alex Schroeckenstein. [2] The building was purchased by the Montana Department of Corrections in 1994. [3]
Maggie Smith Hathaway (1867–1955) was a Montana politician in the first half of the nineteenth century.Hathaway, representing Ravalli County, was one of the first two Montana women elected to state legislature in 1917—over two full years before the Nineteenth Amendment became part of the United States Constitution—along with Emma Ingalls from Flathead County.
Pages in category "History of women in Montana" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.