Modern History Sourcebook:
The Passage of the 19th Amendment
The roll call on the amendment follows:
FOR ADOPTION - 36.
Republicans - 36.
Capper, Cummins, Curtis, Edge, Elkins, Fall, Fernald, France, Frelinghuysen, Gronna, Hale, Harding, Johnson, (Cal.,) Jones, (Wash.,) Kellogg, Kenyon, Kayes, La Follette, Lenroot, McCormick, McCumber, McNaty, Nelson, New, Newberry, Norris, Page, Phipps, Poindexter, Sherman, Smoot, Spencer, Sterling, Sutherland, Warren, Watson.
Democrats - 20.
Ashurst, Chamberlain, Culberson, Harris, Henderson, Jones, (N. M.,) Kenrick, Kirby, McKellar, Myers, Nugent, Phelan, Pittman, Ransdell, Shepard, Smith, (Ariz.,) Stanley, Thomas, Walsh, (Mass.,) Walsh, (Mon.)
AGAINST ADOPTION - 25.
Republicans - 8.
Borah, Brandegee, Dillingham, Knox, Lodge, McLean, Moses, Wadsworth.
Democrats - 17.
Bankhead, Beckham, Dial, Fletcher, Gay, Harrison, Hitchcock, Overman, Reed, Simmons, Smith, (Md.,) Smith, (S. C.,) Swanson, Trammell, Underwood, Williams, Wolcott.
The 19th Amendment was introduced to the Senate in 1878 by Senator Sargent, a Republican from California.
The first five women elected to the House of Representatives were women:
MEMBER AND PARTY | STATE | YEARS OF SERVICE |
Jeannette Rankin (R) | MT |
03/04/1917 - 03/03/1919; 01/03/1941 - 01/03/1943 |
Alice Mary Robertson (R) | OK |
03/04/1921 - 03/03/1923 |
Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck (R) | IL |
11/07/1922 - 03/03/1923 |
Mae Ella Nolan (R) | CA |
01/23/1923 - 03/03/1925 |
Florence Prag Kahn (R) | CA |
03/04/1925 - 01/03/1937 |
So, Anna, why don't you do the 30 minutes of research it took me to find out the real deal on the Republicans history?