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In reply to the discussion: On my facebook page this morning... [View all]ErikJ
(6,335 posts)13. Wiki says Wilson appealed the House for the 19th. The conservative Dixiecrats all opposed it.
Nineteenth Amendment-Wikipedia
Many groups were opposed to women's suffrage at the time.
On January 12, 1915, a suffrage bill was brought before the House of Representatives but was defeated by a vote of 204 to 174. Another bill was brought before the House on January 10, 1918. On the evening before, President Wilson made a strong and widely published appeal to the House to pass the bill. It was passed by two-thirds of the House, with only one vote to spare. The vote was then carried into the Senate. Again President Wilson made an appeal, but on September 30, 1918, the amendment fell two votes short of passage.[citation needed] On February 10, 1919, it was again voted upon, and then it was lost by only one vote.[citation needed]
There was considerable anxiety among politicians of both parties to have the amendment passed and made effective before the general elections of 1920, so the President called a special session of Congress, and a bill, introducing the amendment, was brought before the House again. On May 21, 1919, it was passed, 42 votes more than necessary being obtained. On June 4, 1919, it was brought before the Senate, and after a long discussion it was passed, with 56 ayes and 25 nays. Within a few days, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan ratified the amendment, their legislatures being then in session. Other states followed suit at a regular pace, until the amendment had been ratified by 35 of the necessary 36 state legislatures. After Washington on March 22, 1920, ratification languished for months. Finally, on August 26, 1920, Tennessee narrowly ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, making it the law throughout the United States.[62]
Nearly twenty years later Maryland ratified the amendment in 1941. After another ten years, in 1952, Virginia ratified the nineteenth amendment, followed by Alabama in 1953.[63] After another 16 years Florida and South Carolina passed the necessary votes to ratify in 1969, followed two years later by Georgia[64] and Louisiana in 1970[65] in 1971.
Mississippi did not ratify the nineteenth amendment until 1984, sixty four years after the law was enacted nationally.[66]
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I think it involves a "right-click" on the photo and then a small window opens up and
calimary
Jun 2012
#24
Wiki says Wilson appealed the House for the 19th. The conservative Dixiecrats all opposed it.
ErikJ
Jun 2012
#13
He didnt say Republicans or Dems-he said Libs and Cons--The Dixiecrats were VERY Conservative
ErikJ
Jun 2012
#15
See above post-Dixiecrats were social conservative Democrats until they switched to GOP in 6
ErikJ
Jun 2012
#19
That's why I've always been proud to be a liberal, because the other side is so ignorant.
freshwest
Jun 2012
#12