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3 unusual facts about Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution


Hebbronville, Texas

In 1918, Helen Sewel Harbison became the first woman in Texas to cast a ballot, two years before the implementation of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Sara Roosevelt

His first election took place about thirteen years after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, and Sara became the first Presidential mother to vote for her son.

Thaddeus H. Caraway

He supported American entrance into the League of Nations, bonuses for World War I veterans, as well as the Eighteenth (Prohibition), Nineteenth (Women's Suffrage), and Twentieth (Lame Duck) amendments.


Article Five of the United States Constitution

And in the cases of the Nineteenth Amendment (proposed in 1919) and the still-pending Child Labor Amendment (proposed in 1924), Congress chose specifically not to establish any deadline at all.

Feminist movement in the United States

Alice Paul helped to pass the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by founding the National Woman's Party with Lucy Burns.


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