[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 21, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4023]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT

  (Mr. COOPER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COOPER. Madam Speaker, as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of 
the vote to pass the 19th Amendment, I would like to recognize 
Tennessee's crucial role in the Amendment's ratification.
  State Representative Harry T. Burn was a slow learner. He was 
originally antisuffragist, but he ultimately changed his ``nay'' vote 
to ``yea'' just in time to heed his mother's advice to ``be a good 
boy'' and vote for ratification.
  His was the deciding vote in the Tennessee General Assembly, making 
Tennessee the 36th State, and final State, needed for ratification. 
Representative Burn explained his vote this way: ``I know that a 
mother's advice is always safest for her boy to follow, and my mother 
wanted me to vote for ratification.''
  So thank you to Representative Burn and, above all, to his mother, 
Ms. Phoebe Burn, for her crucial role in aiding women's right to vote.

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