WOW Museum: Western Women's Suffrage

Wyoming

Timeline

1869-		William Bright sponsors suffrage bill before Wyoming Territorial Legislature; Governor John A. Campbell signs bill approving full suffrage for women.
1870-		Eliza A. "Grandma" Swain of Laramie casts first female vote in Wyoming; Esther Morris and Caroline Neil appointed justices of the peace of Sweetwater County.
1890-		Wyoming statehood approved by Congress.
1924-		Nellie Tayloe Ross elected governor of Wyoming.

Elegant women solicit voters on the streets of Cheyenne, Wyoming in November, 1888. Illustrations in the eastern press, like this from Leslies' Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, helped dispel the notion that western women voters were "uncivilized."
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