Re: Cassini-Huygens Mission status report

From: Dale (drc_at_oz.net)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 22:42:35 -0700

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:52:01 +0800, "Neil Gerace" <geracen@iinet.net.au> wrote:

>I don't doubt you, but it couldn't have been very early in the 19th century,
>as South Australia claims it was the fourth place in the world to give women
>the vote. That was in 1894.
>

Maybe it was the 4th place to do it and keep it that way. At the time of the
signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, 4 colonies/states "gave"
women voting rights- Massachusetts, New Hamphire, New Jersey and
New York. By the time the U.S. Constitution was written (1787), all
but New Jersey had revoked women's suffrage. New Jersey finally revoked
it in 1807.

Wyoming Territory granted suffrage to women in 1869. Utah Territory followed
in 1870, only to revoke it in 1887. Idaho granted it in 1890, when it became a
state. Colorado approved it by popular vote (among the men, of course :) in
1893.

Wyoming, Idaho and Colorado couldn't be the first three places in the world
to permanently allow women to vote, could they?

Dale

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