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 coordina-
tion with Better Days 2020, and designating Cheyenne, Wyoming, Den-
ver, 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, Col-
orado, 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 ef-
forts 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 soci-
ety 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 ses-
quicentennial of its women being first in the early mod-
ern Nation to vote, and Utah suffragists, including 
Emmeline B. Wells, Sarah M. Kimball, Emily S. Rich-
ards, and Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon, the Nation’s first 
female State senator, joined forces with Susan B. An-
thony 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 Wyo-
ming 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 suf-
frage 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 leader-
ship of visionary women and men who understood that 
our Nation prospers when each citizen has the oppor-
tunity to vote; and 
Whereas the centennial celebrations of the 19th amendment, 
also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment be-
cause of her unwavering leadership in the women’s rights 
movement, will take place in the year 2020: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes the crucial role that the ratifica-
tion of the 19th amendment to the Constitution 
played in advancing the rights of women and pro-
moting the democratic values at the core of the 
United States; 
(2) designates Salt Lake City, Utah, as the 
western center of the centennial commemoration of 
the ratification of the 19th amendment; 
(3) designates Cheyenne, Wyoming, Denver, 
Colorado, Helena, Montana, and Seneca Falls, New 
York, as sister cities in those celebrations; and 
(4) commends the efforts of Better Days 2020. 
Æ 
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