90th Anniversary Of The 19th Amendment

Today is the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which gave women the right to vote after a full century of the organization, agitation and marching.

On this date in 1920, the General Assembly of Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, so it's official.

Few people remember, however, that the historic ratification occurred by a single vote, a man, of course, in those days.


It was Harry T. Burn, a lawyer and later a banker. He had settled in their opposition to this nonsense vote.

The General Assembly vote on the amendment vote was a 48-48 tie. Burns defeats vote and postpone the national ratification, at least one month to the Connecticut legislature's vote.

But shortly before the legislative historical account, Harry T. Record received a long letter from his mother back home in NIOTO.
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