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Suffrage By the Numbers
Suffrage
By the Numbers
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States that had granted full women’s suffrage before the passage of the 19th Amendment.
States required to ratify the 19th Amendment. It came down to one member of the Tennessee Assembly (Harry Burn) who, an expected “nay,” voted “aye” on the advice of his mother, August 18, 1920.
Constitutional amendments ratified during Wilson’s two-term presidency (16th-income tax, 17th-direct election of senate, 18th-Prohibition, 19th-women’s suffrage).
Percent of eligible women voters (those who met requirements whether or not they registered) who did not cast ballots in the 1920 Presidential election, the first after passage of the 19th Amendment. Includes the large percent of women (the “antis”) who opposed suffrage.
Years it took for 12 hold-out states to ratify the 19th amendment; the last Mississippi, in 1984.
