Bill Text: IA HR102 | 2019-2020 | 88th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A resolution celebrating July 2, 2019, as the 100th anniversary of the State of Iowa ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Formerly HCR 105.)

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (N/A - Dead) 2020-02-13 - Resolution adopted. H.J. 270. [HR102 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2019-HR102-Introduced.html

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House Resolution 102 - Introduced
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 102
BY WILLIAMS , GAINES , BENNETT , STECKMAN , KRESSIG ,
STAED , DERRY , JUDGE , GASKILL , BROWN-POWERS ,
ANDERSON , WILBURN , McCONKEY , MATSON , KURTH , M.
SMITH , KACENA , THEDE , MASCHER , WESSEL-KROESCHELL ,
SUNDE , ISENHART , KONFRST , HUNTER , JAMES , COHOON ,
OLDSON , JACOBY , EHLERT , OURTH , McKEAN , B. MEYER ,
LENSING , DONAHUE , HALL , WINCKLER , ABDUL-SAMAD ,
BEARINGER , R. SMITH , WOLFE , BRECKENRIDGE ,
RUNNING-MARQUARDT , NIELSEN , OLSON , FORBES , KURTZ ,
PRICHARD , DOLECHECK , HUSEMAN , BERGAN , SALMON ,
MAXWELL , BAXTER , OSMUNDSON , GASSMAN , MOHR , JONES ,
MOORE , HOLT , WHEELER , SIECK , SORENSEN , SHIPLEY ,
MOMMSEN , JENEARY , WORTHAN , A. MEYER , LOHSE ,
PAUSTIAN , BRINK , BACON , GRASSLEY , THOMPSON ,
BOSSMAN , WINDSCHITL , LANDON , HAGENOW , and HITE
A Resolution celebrating July 2, 2019, as the 100th
anniversary of the State of Iowa ratifying
the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States
Constitution.
WHEREAS, the fight for women’s suffrage, from the
first women’s convention to enfranchisement, lasted 72
years, with women from all walks of life, political
views, and demographic backgrounds asking for the right
to voice their opinions at the polls; and
WHEREAS, the first women’s rights convention
was held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, where
Elizabeth Cady Stanton read “The Declaration of
Sentiments”, which set the agenda for women’s
activism; and
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WHEREAS, Sojourner Truth fought for African American
women’s right to vote at a women’s rights convention
in Akron, Ohio, in 1851, delivering her famous speech
“Ain’t I a Woman?”; and
WHEREAS, Susan B. Anthony cast her ballot for United
States presidential candidate Ulysses S. Grant and was
arrested and tried in Rochester, New York, in 1872; and
WHEREAS, in 1894, Iowa women gained the right to
vote on ballot questions regarding bond or tax issues,
but continued to be denied the ability to vote on
candidates; and
WHEREAS, Iowa women’s suffrage leader Mary Jane
Coggeshall was elected to serve on the board of the
National Woman Suffrage Association in 1895 and she
gave speeches at the organization’s conventions in 1904
and 1907; and
WHEREAS, Council Bluffs, Iowa, was the site of a
women’s suffrage march in 1908, one of the first in the
nation; and
WHEREAS, Carrie Chapman Catt, who grew up in Iowa,
led the National American Woman Suffrage Association
from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920 and developed and
implemented the “Winning Plan” to gain support from
legislators at the state and federal levels for women’s
suffrage; and
WHEREAS, the United States Senate passed the
Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing women the right to
vote in 1919 and states began ratification; and
WHEREAS, the Nineteenth Amendment was signed into
law by the United States Secretary of State on August
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26, 1920; and
WHEREAS, the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed the
right to vote to African American women in Iowa and
other states outside the American south; and
WHEREAS, 2020 is also the 55th anniversary of the
Voting Rights Act, which fully enfranchised African
American women in the American south; and
WHEREAS, daughters, granddaughters, and
great-granddaughters of the women who fought so hard to
vote have been making their voices heard at the polls
for nearly 100 years; and
WHEREAS, women are running for office in
unprecedented numbers and many current politicians,
both male and female, remember that they follow in the
footsteps of these great suffragists; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, That
more than 100 years of women’s suffrage is recognized
in light of July 2, 2019, being the 100th anniversary
of the State of Iowa ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment
to the United States Constitution.
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