Lex Anteinternet: Today In Wyoming's History: January 27, 1920. Wyoming Ratifies the 19th Amendment.

Monday, January 27, 2020

Today In Wyoming's History: January 27, 1920. Wyoming Ratifies the 19th Amendment.

Today In Wyoming's History: January 27: 1920 Wyoming ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Women could, of course, already vote in Wyoming so the ratification of the amendment to the United States Constitution providing for the same was no surprise. There had been a bit of an effort to convene a special session for this purpose in 1919, but Governor Robert Carey declined to do that, so ratification had to wait until Governor Carey ultimately called a special session of the legislature for 1920.

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