what state was the first to grant women the vote?
âWe will remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women,â the territorial legislature declared in a telegram to congressional leaders. Congress relented, and Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote when it became the countryâs 44th state in 1890. The West continued to be the countryâs most progressive region on full womenâs suffrage. Colorado approved it in 1893, and Idaho did the same three years later. Congress had disenfranchised women along with outlawing polygamy in Utah in 1887, but women regained the right to vote when the territory became a state in 1896.
A+E Networks. On this day in 1889, the Wyoming state convention approves a constitution that includes a provision granting women the right to vote. Formally admitted into the union the following year, Wyoming thus became the first state in the history of the nation to allow its female citizens to vote. That the isolated western state of Wyoming should be the first to accept womenâs suffrage was a surprise.