page_title: Elizabeth Pugsley Hayward
section_title: Legislative activity
hierarchical_section_title: Elizabeth Pugsley Hayward / Legislative activity
caption_attribution_description: English: Salt Lake Telegram, "Name Woman to Introduce Suffrage Measure," September 29, 1919, 5. "That the honor of introducing the resolution indorsing the constitutional amendment granting the right of suffrage to women will go to Senator Elizabeth Hayward of Salt Lake was almost a definite conclusion in legislative circles today." Elizabeth_Pugsley_Hayward
context_page_description: Elizabeth Pugsley Hayward was an American politician and Democratic member of the Utah House of Representatives and Utah State Senate.
context_section_description: Hayward was first elected as a state representative for the Eighth District (Salt Lake City) in the Utah House of Representatives in 1914. She served on the Art, Public Health, and State Library Committees and introduced bills regarding art, education and child welfare. She was elected again in 1917.  She served in the Utah State Senate in the 1919 and 1921 sessions.
  
  Elizabeth Hayward introduced the bill into the Utah State Senate ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted women the right to vote in national elections.
caption: Salt Lake Telegram article noting that Senator Elizabeth Hayward would introduce the "resolution indorsing the constitutional amendment granting the right of suffrage to women."
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