Women's suffrage in Utah

Emily S. Richards (co-founder of Utah Woman Suffrage Association), Phebe Y. Beattie (executive committee chair of UWSA), and Sarah Granger Kimball (second president of UWSA).[1]

Women's suffrage was first granted in Utah in 1870, in the pre-federal period, decades before statehood. Among all U.S. states, only Wyoming granted suffrage to women earlier than Utah. Because Utah held two elections before Wyoming, Utah women were the first women to cast ballots in the United States after the start of the suffrage movement. However, in 1887 the Edmunds–Tucker Act was passed by Congress in an effort to curtail Mormon influence in the territorial government, disallowing the enfranchisement of the women residents within Utah Territory. Women regained the vote upon Utah statehood in 1896, when lawmakers included the right in the state constitution.[2]

  1. ^ Barbara Jones Brown, Naomi Watkins, and Katherine Kitterman "Gaining, Losing, and Winning Back the Vote:The Story of Utah Women’s Suffrage" online at: [1]
  2. ^ "Women's Suffrage in Utah". National Park Service. Retrieved 20 October 2023.

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