[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1105 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1105

    Designating Salt Lake City, Utah, as the western center of the 
centennial commemoration of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, in 
coordination with Better Days 2020, and designating Cheyenne, Wyoming, 
   Denver, Colorado, Helena, Montana, and Seneca Falls, New York, as 
                  sister cities in those celebrations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2018

  Mrs. Love (for herself, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Curtis, and Mr. Bishop of 
  Utah) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Designating Salt Lake City, Utah, as the western center of the 
centennial commemoration of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, in 
coordination with Better Days 2020, and designating Cheyenne, Wyoming, 
   Denver, Colorado, Helena, Montana, and Seneca Falls, New York, as 
                  sister cities in those celebrations.

Whereas the 19th amendment to the Constitution of the United States, granting 
        women the right to vote, was ratified on August 18, 1920, because of the 
        tireless efforts of American women and men who served as leaders in 
        their communities and the Nation to secure the right for women to vote 
        and to have a more fair and just society for all;
Whereas, in 2020, celebrations, programs, ceremonies, and events will take place 
        in cities across the United States, particularly in cities in which 
        monumental historic events and people shaped the women's suffrage 
        movement;
Whereas Salt Lake City, Utah, will celebrate in 2020 the sesquicentennial of its 
        women being first in the early modern Nation to vote, and Utah 
        suffragists, including Emmeline B. Wells, Sarah M. Kimball, Emily S. 
        Richards, and Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon, the Nation's first female State 
        senator, joined forces with Susan B. Anthony and other national leaders 
        to seek enfranchisement for women across the Nation;
Whereas Wyoming was the first territory to legislatively grant suffrage to women 
        in December 1869, and Wyoming suffragist Esther Hobart Morris was the 
        first woman to hold judicial office in the modern world when she was 
        elected as a justice of the peace in 1870;
Whereas Montana elected the first woman to Congress in 1916, and Jeannette 
        Rankin, who served in the House of Representatives, became the only 
        woman in Congress who was able to vote in favor of giving women the 
        right to vote;
Whereas Colorado approved a referendum granting equal suffrage and became the 
        first State to enfranchise women in 1893 due to the efforts of Martha A. 
        Pease, president of the Equal Suffrage Association, newspaper columnist 
        Minnie J. Reynolds, and Margaret Tobin Brown, the ``Unsinkable Molly 
        Brown'';
Whereas Seneca Falls, New York, was the location in 1848 of the first women's 
        rights convention and is known as the birthplace of the suffrage 
        movement;
Whereas the right to vote was enacted because of the leadership of visionary 
        women and men who understood that our Nation prospers when each citizen 
        has the opportunity to vote; and
Whereas the centennial celebrations of the 19th amendment, also known as the 
        Susan B. Anthony Amendment because of her unwavering leadership in the 
        women's rights movement, will take place in the year 2020: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes the crucial role that the ratification of 
        the 19th amendment to the Constitution played in advancing the 
        rights of women and promoting the democratic values at the core 
        of the United States;
            (2) designates Salt Lake City, Utah, as the western center 
        of the centennial commemoration of the ratification of the 19th 
        amendment;
            (3) designates Cheyenne, Wyoming, Denver, Colorado, Helena, 
        Montana, and Seneca Falls, New York, as sister cities in those 
        celebrations; and
            (4) commends the efforts of Better Days 2020.
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