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Series: 63rd Congress, 1st session, Senate Report, 64

Favorable report by the U.S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage on the proposed woman suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Included in the report was a memorial signed by the officers…

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Series: 43rd Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 472

The Committee on the Judiciary recommended that the petition be discharged and the bill postponed indefinitely due to a lack of Congressional authority on the matter.

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Article, written by Senator Thomas B. Catron, in opposition to a federal suffrage amendment.

Contents include:
Failure of women to vote when given the ballot
The women's vote for president
Taxation and woman suffrage
Prohibition and woman…

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Mary Ware Dennett was a suffragist, artist, and advocate of birth control and sex education. She served as the field secretary for the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association and the corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage…

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Senator James Martine, of New Jersey presents an article from the District of Columbia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage presenting with facts on the negative impact of women voters in states where women were granted the right to vote.

The…

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E. Dana Bancroft was in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

The envelope also contains handwritten notes: "Saw Dr. Heartwell and spoke with him about the within [?] an [?] presence of Doctor Parsons Sat. Feb. 18, 1888. Senator voted…

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Series: Mis. doc. (United States. Congress. House), 41st Congress, 2nd session, no. 48.

Charlotte McKay, a Civil War nurse, addresses several reasons against granting the right to vote to women, chief among them that it would put the safety of the…

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From the series: United States. Congress. Senate, 49th Congress, 1st session, No. 122.

Petition to the 1st Session of the 49th Congress by Mrs. Angie F. Newman to present the signatures of 2,000 Mormon women who assembled in Salt Lake City, Utah…
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