Clinton vote is more than just a ballot to 100-year-old voter
CARSON CITY -- When Gertrude Gottschalk was born in 1916, the United States hadn’t entered World War I.
The top grossing film was D.W. Griffith’s silent classic “Intolerance.” Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight was still 11 years away. The Chicago Cubs played their first game at historic Wrigley Field. President Woodrow Wilson ran successfully for re-election against New York Gov. Charles Evans Hughes.
And women, like Gottschalk, didn’t have the right to vote nationwide.
Universal women’s suffrage would come shortly after Gottschalk’s birth with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920 after a grueling amount of work, though Nevada enacted suffrage in 1914 with women voting statewide for the first time in 1916. It was a historic time for the country, granting half the population a chance to vote.
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