IV 

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. 

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 

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; 


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•HRES 1105 IH 

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; 


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•HRES 1105 IH 

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 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) recognizes the crucial role that the ratifica3 tion of the 19th amendment to the Constitution 

4 played in advancing the rights of women and pro5 moting the democratic values at the core of the 

6 United States; 

7 (2) designates Salt Lake City, Utah, as the 

8 western center of the centennial commemoration of 

9 the ratification of the 19th amendment; 

10 (3) designates Cheyenne, Wyoming, Denver, 

11 Colorado, Helena, Montana, and Seneca Falls, New 

12 York, as sister cities in those celebrations; and 

13 (4) commends the efforts of Better Days 2020. 

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