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The Democratic Party ran Al Smith, the first Catholic presidential candidate by a major party, in 1928, and, except when the ticket was headed by a Southern candidate, has nominated a Catholic for president or vice president in every election since 1960 except for 1988 (where a Greek Orthodox, Michael Dukakis, was the presidential nominee).
Below are notable members of the League of Women Voters. Juanita Jones Abernathy (1931–2019), member of the board of directors of the Atlanta Fulton County League of Women Voters; Sadie L. Adams (1872–1945), one of the first women to serve on an election board in Chicago and one of the founders of the Alpha Suffrage Club
League of Women Voters (U.S.) Education Fund (1966). The Big Water Fight: Trials and Triumphs in Citizen Action on Problems of Supply, Pollution, Floods, and Planning Across the U.S.A. S. Greene Press. ISBN 9780828900515. League of Women Voters (October 1948). The Citizen and the United Nations. Washington, DC: The National League of Women Voters.
In Chicago alone 200,000 women were registered to vote. After gaining partial suffrage, women in Illinois kept working towards full suffrage. The state became the first to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, passing the ratification on June 10, 1919. The League of Women Voters (LWV) was announced in Chicago on February 14, 1920.
Today the Tribune Editorial Board publishes the second and final part of our statewide endorsements for the Illinois Senate. Read Part One here. District 31 This Lake County district includes all ...
The CatholicVote.org domain name was first used by the Catholic Alliance in early 2000. [12] The Catholic Alliance was a grassroots group of Americans who agreed with the platform of the fundamental evangelical Protestant Christian Coalition but wished to widen the Coalition's scope to include Catholics. [13]
Tarrant County 2024 primary voter guide: State, county, congressional candidates Eleanor Dearman, Harrison Mantas, James Hartley, Nicole Lopez, Harriet Ramos, Noah Alcala Bach February 15, 2024 at ...
The News-Democrat has contacted candidates running in state legislative races in the Nov. 5 election and asked them to complete a detailed questionnaire. The early voting period runs from Sept. 26 ...