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• Position: THEN & NOW - Brief article

The Wyoming Territory in 1869 (and later the state in 1890) was the first to grant all women the right to vote. (Women who owned property in New Jersey, however, were allowed to vote from 1790 to 1807.) Esther Morris led the successful effort in Wyoming, and a year later became the first female justice of the peace. Some have suggested lawmakers from the "Equality State" merely wanted to attract more women to the Wild West. Even so, Wyoming boasts the first woman...