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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]
"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 University. Winestine, Belle Fligelman (Summer 1974). "Mother Was Shocked". Montana: The Magazine of ...
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 ...
Kenneth E. Hagin was born August 20, 1917, in McKinney, Texas, the son of Lillie Viola Drake Hagin and Jess Hagin. [citation needed] According to Hagin, he was born with a deformed heart and what was believed to be an incurable blood disease.
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.
Jane Gillette is an American dentist and politician serving as a member of the Montana House of Representatives from the 64th district. [1] Elected in November 2020, she assumed office on January 4, 2021.
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.
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