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100 YEARS AGO

1919: Indiana secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment in 1917. Rendered doubtful by a court decision, the law was re-enacted with but six dissenting votes.

1919: Maine secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment after defeat of a constitutional amendment in 1917.

1919: Missouri secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment after defeat of a constitutional amendment in 1916.

1919: Iowa secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment after defeat of a constitutional amendment in 1916.

1919: Minnesota secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment.

1919: Ohio secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment after defeat of referendum on the law in 1917 and of a constitutional amendment in 1912 and 1914.

1919: Wisconsin secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment after defeat of a constitutional amendment in 1912.

1919: Tennessee secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment.

January 6, 1919: In an urn directly in line with the White House front door, the National Woman's Party builds a perpetual "watchfire for freedom" in which they burn the words of every hypocritical speech President Wilson gives about democracy.

March 24, 1919: Carrie Chapman Catt proposes the formation of a league of women voters to "finish the fight." The occasion was the 50th Anniversary Jubilee Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in St. Louis.

Spring 1919: The most prominent National Woman's Party suffrage prisoners (including Havemeyer, Rogers, Milholland, Winsor, Vernon) tour the country on a train called the "Prison Special." At each stop they speak about the need for suffrage and their prison experiences; between stops they threw suffrage literature out the windows for farming communities.

May 21, 1919: The House of Representatives passes the federal woman suffrage amendment, 304 to 89, a margin of 42 votes over the required two-thirds majority. Opponents block action in the Senate for another two weeks, delaying ratification as most legislatures had adjourned for the year.

June 4, 1919: The Senate passes the Nineteenth Amendment with just two votes to spare, 56 to 25. Drafted by Susan B. Anthony and first introduced in 1878 with the same wording, it is now sent to the states for ratification.

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