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First women's rights convention
The first women's rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. After 2 days of discussion and debate, 68 women and 32 men sign a Declaration of Sentiments, which outlines grievances and sets the agenda for the women's rights movement. A set of 12 resolutions is adopted calling for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women. -
Susan B. Anthony-Voting
Susan B. Anthony cast a ballot in the presidential election, though women at the time were prohibited from doing so. Two weeks later, she was arrested, and the following year, she was found guilty of illegal voting. It would take another 50 years until the Nineteenth Amendment, passed in 1920, would grant women nationwide the right to vote -
First woman elected as a Republican to the 65 Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a high government office in the United States when, in 1916, she was elected to the United States Congress from the state of Montana. After winning her House seat in 1916, she said, "I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last."She also was elected in 1940. -
19th Admendment
Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage. -
First women elected to the senate
Georgia's Democratic Governor Thomas Hardwick made history by appointing a woman to a Senate vacancy. He believed this act would appeal to the newly enfranchised women of Georgia. -
First woman to occupy a seat in the U.S. Senate
Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia, the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, took the oath of office on November 21, 1922. Having been appointed to fill a vacancy on October 3, Felton's official service began on that date but she served only 24 hours after taking the oath ... -
First women elected as governors
the first woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state, and remains the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming -
First women Cabinet member
the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. -
First women elected senate without being appointed
She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either. -
First African American women eleted to US House of Representatives
Shirley Chisholm of New York, won election to the House in 1968. The first Hispanic-American woman elected to Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, won election to the House in 1989.
