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Her Hat Was In The Ring - U.S. Women Who Ran for Political Office Before 1920

Her Hat Was In the Ring is a biography site listing women who ran for public office prior to the passage of the nineteenth amendment in 1920.

www.herhatwasinthering.org

So it turns out that US women were able to run for office (and won) in jursidictions where they did not have the right to vote before universal sufferage in 1920. Apparently over 3000 did.

#women's suffrage #U.S. Politics #19th century history #feminism #they didn't make a rule against this?