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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 ...
This group held annual conventions and petitioned various governmental bodies in Illinois for women's suffrage. On June 19, 1891, women gained the right to vote for school offices. However, it wasn't until 1913 that women saw expanded suffrage. That year women in Illinois were granted the right to vote for Presidential electors and various ...
Washington state restores women's right to vote through the state constitution. [26] 1911. California women earn the right to vote following the passage of California Proposition 4. [27] 1912. Women in Arizona and Kansas earn the right to vote. [27] Women in Oregon earn the right to vote. [13] 1913
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.
The state of Mississippi belatedly ratifies the 19th Amendment, granting women the vote. 1985 – EMILY's List is founded, its mission to elect Democratic, pro-abortion rights women to office.
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
Because of their status as colonized subjects, Philippine nationals held no political rights in the United States and could not vote or participate in U.S. politics. [28] While Filipino men gained the right to vote in local Filipino elections in 1907, Filipina women did not gain the same rights until 1937.
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.