When Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby affixed his signature to the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920, women across the United States gained full voting rights.
In 1838 Kentucky allowed widows with school-age children to vote in school elections, and Kansas followed in 1861.
“Wyoming is the first place on God’s green earth which could consistently claim to be the land of the free!”
When Congress threatened to keep Wyoming out of the Union if it didn’t rescind the provision, the territory refused to budge.
Congress relented, and Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote when it became the country’s 44th state in 1890.
The dozen states that restricted women from casting ballots in any election were primarily in the South and the East.
For its trailblazing role, Wyoming has adopted the nickname of the “Equality State,” and its motto is “Equal Rights. »
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