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To: Utah Girl
It looks like Wyoming granted women the right to vote a couple of months before Utah.

Well, not to keep beating a dead horse but 1890 to 1900 is 120 months.

11 posted on 06/30/2008 7:32:09 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (364 more shopping days until Graybeard58's b/day.)
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To: Graybeard58
Poor old horse. :) Actually, I think semantics are tripping us up. Wyoming Territory (before it was a state) granted women the right to vote in 1869. Utah Territory (before it was a state) granted women the right to vote a couple of months later in 1870.

After Utah was a state, then women were granted the right to vote again in 1895. The privilege was taken away by the federal courts in 1887. Initially they felt that women would vote polygamy out, but when that didn't happen, the federal courts revoked their right to vote.

Wyoming as a state granted women the right to vote in 1890. Source: Women's suffrage in Utah

14 posted on 06/30/2008 8:02:01 PM PDT by Utah Girl (John 15:12, Matthew 5:44)
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To: Graybeard58
Details, details...........

"We don't need no stinking details"

30 posted on 07/02/2008 9:17:25 AM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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