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Wyoming: A State of Firsts
to think for long about the offer. “We will remain out of the Union 100 years rather than come in without the women,” was their response. Fortunately, everyone else came to their senses, and Wyoming joined the Union in 1890, with women retaining their rights. This September will mark 150 years since the historic moment when Swain cast her ballot. Many local museums are paying tribute to the event with special exhibits, interactive displays, and online resources geared toward sharing our state’s role in making women’s suffrage a national norm. Find more information, includign any closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on the Travel Wyoming site and at WomensVote100.org. You can also drive along the Wyoming Women’s Suffrage Pathway near South Pass City to experience the commemoration of the journey from that first ballot cast in 1870 to the state’s ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
Wyoming takes the lead in many ways: expansive natural areas; stunning national and state parks, including the nation’s first national park, Yellowstone; gorgeous mountains; and many rivers, hot springs, and geysers. One of Wyoming’s firsts that isn’t quite as visible is our state’s championing of women’s suffrage. Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote, the first place a woman cast a ballot, and home to the first female governor. In 1869, Wyoming became the first state in the U.S. to pass a law guaranteeing unconditional voting rights and the right to hold office to women. In 1870, Louisa Swain became the first woman to cast an electoral ballot in an open election. Wyoming also holds claim to the first female jurors, the first female bailiffs, and the first town governed by women. When Wyoming was invited to join the Union on the condition that women’s suffrage be revoked, the Wyoming legislature didn’t have
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