Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of U.S. Women’s Right to Vote

Posted by Katie Speckart / August 26, 2010

Women march in a rally supporting the right for women to vote in elections, 1912. [AP File Photo]

About the Author: Kathryn Speckart serves as Collections Manager for the U.S. Diplomacy Center.

What did the U.S. Secretary of State have to do with U.S. women winning the right to vote in 1920?

The Secretary of State is concerned with foreign affairs, not U.S. domestic duties, right? Actually, the Department of State, and therefore the Secretary of State, used to handle many domestic duties, including the ratification of Constitutional amendments. Back in 1920, U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby presided over the ratification of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. By 1950, many of the domestic duties performed by the… more »

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