Suffrage cartoon by A. T. Reid from the Minneapolis Tribune, showing the tally of suffrage states by political parties as of July 16, 1920. The man represents southern Democrats who had a reputation for being anti-suffrage.

Suffrage cartoon

Suffrage cartoon by A. T. Reid from the Minneapolis Tribune, showing the tally of suffrage states by political parties as of July 16, 1920. The man represents southern Democrats who had a reputation for being anti-suffrage.

Clara Ueland, 1920. Photo by Moffett Studio Photography.

Clara Ueland

Clara Ueland, 1920. Photo by Moffett Studio Photography.

Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association pageant, ca. 1920. Photo by C. J. Hibbard.

Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association pageant

Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association pageant, ca. 1920. Photo by C. J. Hibbard.

Minnesota's Ratification of the 19th Amendment, September 8, 1919. Committee Papers, 1919–1920; Records of the US House of Representatives, Record Group 233; National Archives Building, Washington, DC. Public domain.

Documenting ratifying the 19th Amendment in Minnesota

Minnesota's Ratification of the 19th Amendment, September 8, 1919. Committee Papers, 1919–1920; Records of the US House of Representatives, Record Group 233; National Archives Building, Washington, DC. Public domain.

Woman-suffrage banner, ca. 1918.

Woman-suffrage banner

Woman-suffrage banner, ca. 1918.

Maria Sanford, 1918. Photo by Lee Brothers

Maria Sanford, 1918

Maria Sanford, 1918. Photo by Lee Brothers

March for woman suffrage, Madison, Minnesota, ca. 1916.

March for woman suffrage

March for woman suffrage, Madison, Minnesota, ca. 1916.

Woman-suffrage meeting at Rice Park, St. Paul, 1914.

Woman-suffrage meeting at Rice Park

Woman-suffrage meeting at Rice Park, St. Paul, 1914.

League of Women Voters swearing in new members or registering women to vote, ca. 1923.

League of Women Voters

League of Women Voters swearing in new members or registering women to vote, ca. 1923.

Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in Minnesota

Minnesota’s suffragists worked tirelessly to win the vote beginning in the late 1850s, when Mary Colburn delivered what is believed to be the state’s first women’s rights speech. After a long struggle, the dream of equal suffrage took a big leap forward on September 8, 1919, when the state legislature voted to ratify the woman suffrage amendment, making Minnesota the fifteenth state to do so.

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