Wyoming Territory was the first to give women the right to vote on Dec. 10, 1869.
Wyoming Territory was the first to give women the right to vote on Dec. 10, 1869.
This newspaper cover shows Wyoming women voting in 1888. At that time, Wyoming women were the only American women with equal voting rights. While Utah and Washington territories had followed Wyoming’s lead and granted voting rights to women, by 1888, the courts and Congress had overruled their suffrage laws.
To learn when American women across the United States were enfranchised, before or after the Nineteenth Amendment, see When did women in your state get the right to vote?
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