THIS DAY AT LAW
Today in legal history...
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Wyoming grants women sufferage
On December 10, 1869, the governor of the Wyoming Territory signed the first US legislation granting women the right to vote.
Get
background on women's suffrage in Wyoming
from the Woman of the West Museum. Read a 1998
thread on the Wyoming legislation
from the H-Women academic discussion list.
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