Tabular Statement of Limited Suffrage
1897
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Millions of women could vote before the 19th Amendment; because state governments decide who can vote in their respective states, and some states granted their women suffrage. Instead of granting women full voting rights, some states, counties, and municipalities adopted "partial" or "limited" suffrage measures that enabled some women to vote in only certain elections.
This table of limited suffrage details the "voting privileges" that certain states granted to women beginning with Kentucky in 1838 – ten years before the Seneca Falls Convention called for broader educational and professional opportunities for women, including giving women the right to vote.
It was produced in the late 1890s by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others, and was used in testimony before Congress in regards to the kinds of limited suffrage women were exercising in each state that did not have full suffrage. This document illustrates that women’s suffrage expanded piecemeal through the late 19th century with some states fully enfranchising women and others granting suffrage in only some elections.
This table of limited suffrage details the "voting privileges" that certain states granted to women beginning with Kentucky in 1838 – ten years before the Seneca Falls Convention called for broader educational and professional opportunities for women, including giving women the right to vote.
It was produced in the late 1890s by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others, and was used in testimony before Congress in regards to the kinds of limited suffrage women were exercising in each state that did not have full suffrage. This document illustrates that women’s suffrage expanded piecemeal through the late 19th century with some states fully enfranchising women and others granting suffrage in only some elections.
This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. House of Representatives.
National Archives Identifier: 119222084
Full Citation: Tabular Statement of Limited Suffrage; 1897; Committee Papers of the Committee on the Judiciary from the 55th Congress; (HR55A-F19.4); Committee Papers, 1813 - 2011; Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Record Group 233; National Archives Building, Washington, DC. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/limited-suffrage, October 4, 2023]Rights: Public Domain, Free of Known Copyright Restrictions. Learn more on our privacy and legal page.
