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A
few of the many Wyoming Women that were First.
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1870
- Eliza A. Swain a 70 year old from Laramie City, was the
first woman to vote in a General Election. (The 19th Amendment
allowing woman suffrage to all states was not ratified for another
50 years in 1920).
It is believed that Laramie opened their polls early to be certain of having this first vote. |
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"Baby,
baby, don't get in a fury, Your
mamma's gone to sit on a jury!
(NY
Editors poking fun at Wyoming - 1870)
1870 - The first women jurors in the country were used in Laramie City. The following year, new judges stopped the use of women juries in Wyoming. (The "Women Jury Law" was not passed for nearly 79 years in 1949) |
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| 1870 - Esther Morris from South Pass City was the first woman Justice of the Peace in the country. | ||
| 1889 - "Cattle Kate" Kate Ella May Watson was the first and only woman ever lynched in The Wyoming Territory for rustling. | ||
| 1894 - Estelle Reel was the first woman in the country elected to State Office. | ||
| 1911 - Mary Bellamy from Laramie was the first woman in the country to be elected to a State Legislature, and went to Washington to represent Wyoming during the national campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment. | ||
| 1919 - "Queen Anna" Anna Richey was the first woman found guilty in a court of law for rustling. | ||
| 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman Governor in Wyoming, and the country. | ||
| 1933 - Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman director of the US Mint in Washington D.C. | ||
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Credits:
The Wyoming Room at the Albany County Public Library, Wyoming Prelude
to Statehood - Clarice Whittenburg, Wyoming - Francis Birkhead Beard,
I Didn't Know That About Wyoming - Lavinia Dobler, History of Wyoming
- I.S. Bartlett, Daily Sentinel - Sept. 7 1870.
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