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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: see if any Montana names need to be added to this ...
Chief Eagle Cap signs a petition at the Montana League of Women Voters booth at the Montana State Fair in Helena. This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Montana. 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 ...
Montana Capitol Building. As of 2022, Montana ranked 22nd out of 50 American states in terms of percentage of state legislators who are women. [1] Within the Montana State Legislature, 32.7 percent of all members were women in 2022. [1] From statehood in 1889 to 2025, the state of Montana had only one female governor, Judy Martz. [2]
During the session, Stewart urged legislators to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment because "Montana already has woman suffrage; her women vote upon every important issue presented to our people." [59] The ratification passed immediately and the governor signed it on August 2, 1919. [59] Montana was the thirteenth state to ratify the amendment. [59]
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 "Women in Montana" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Montana.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
Carlson was born and raised in Montana. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical sciences from Montana State University. Carlson and her husband, Don, have five children and live in Churchill, Montana. She was elected to the Montana House of Representatives in November 2020 and assumed office on January 4, 2021. [1] [2]