A.C.R. 25


Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 25--Assemblymen 
    Braulin, Brower, Buckley, Chowning, de Braga, 
    Evans, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Krenzer, Lambert, 
    Monaghan, Ohrenschall, Segerblom, Steel, Stroth, 
    Tiffany, Tripple, Dini, Hettrick, Manendo, 
    Goldwater, Close, Humke, Harrington, Williams, 
    Bennett, Batten, Neighbors, Perkins, Spitler, 
    Arberry, Price, Sandoval, Anderson, Schneider, 
    Bache, Nolan, Allard, Carpenter, Fettic, Marvel 
    and Ernaut

                  April 27, 1995
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                 Read and adopted


SUMMARY--Commemorates 75th anniversary of 
          ratification of 19th Amendment to 
          Constitution of United States of America. 
          (BDR R-1258)



EXPLANATION--Matter in italics is new; matter in bra
ckets [ ] is material to be omitted.

ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION--Commemorates the 75th anniversary of 
        the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of 
        the United States of America.


  WHEREAS, In July 1848, the first Women's 
Rights Convention was held at Seneca Falls, New York, at 
which the Declaration of Sentiments was adopted, advocating, 
among other propositions, that women be granted the right to 
vote and stating "[w]e hold these truths to be self-evident: 
that all men and women are created equal"; and
  WHEREAS, In the seven decades following the 
Women's Rights Convention, the proposition that women be 
granted the right to vote became a subject of heated public 
debate and discussion, upon which numerous marches were held 
and speeches were made, some nearly resulting in riots; and
  WHEREAS, In 1890, Wyoming became the first 
state to grant women the right to vote, and in 1914, the 
women of Nevada were granted the right to vote; and
  WHEREAS, In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson 
urged the Congress of the United States to adopt a proposed 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States of 
America granting the right to vote to all American women; 
and
  WHEREAS, In 1918, the House of Representatives 
adopted a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States of America stating that "[t]he right of 
citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or 
abridged by the United States or by any State on account of 
sex"; and
  WHEREAS, In 1919, the Senate adopted the 
proposed amendment and sent it to the states for 
ratification; and
  WHEREAS, At the urging of Sadie Dotson Hurst, 
Nevada's first female legislator, the Honorable Emmet D. 
Boyle, Governor of the State of Nevada, called a special 
session of the Nevada Legislature for the purpose of 
ratifying the proposed amendment; and
  WHEREAS, When the special session of the 
Legislature convened on February 7, 1920, Assemblywoman 
Hurst introduced Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution 
No. 1, ratifying the proposed amendment, and presided over 
the Assembly during the final consideration of the 
resolution; and
  WHEREAS, In a special session lasting just 
over 4 hours, the Assembly passed the resolution ratifying 
the proposed amendment by a vote of 25 to 1, while the 
Senate passed the resolution unanimously; and
  WHEREAS, Governor Boyle signed the resolution 
the same day, in the presence of Assemblywoman Hurst and 
many of the women in Nevada who had been instrumental in the 
fight for women's suffrage, making Nevada the 28th state to 
ratify the proposed amendment; and
  WHEREAS, On August 26, 1920, the State of 
Tennessee became the 36th and final state to ratify the 19th 
Amendment; and
  WHEREAS, The ratification of the 19th 
Amendment granted 26 million American women the right to 
vote; and
  WHEREAS, The 19th Amendment was ratified 
before the presidential election of November 1920, allowing 
those 26 million American women to vote in that election, 
including 91-year-old Charlotte Woodward, the only surviving 
woman to have signed the Declaration of Sentiments 72 years 
earlier in Seneca Falls; now, therefore, be it
  RESOLVED BY THE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, THE 
SENATE CONCURRING, That the Nevada Legislature and the 
citizens it represents commemorate the 75th anniversary of 
the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution 
of the United States of America; and be it further
  RESOLVED, That the Nevada Legislature finds 
that the female voters of today are grateful for the 
courage, determination and persistence of our nation's great 
women who fought diligently for so many years to win the 
right to vote, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia 
Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt and 
Anne Martin, a native Nevadan.

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