Hannibal resident Marie Byrum became the first woman in the state of Missouri to vote under the newly approved 19th Amendment on this date in 1920. The 26-year-old cast her ballot in a City Council special election.
Photo credit: League Of Women Voters, U.S. Records, Deeg, Carl, photographer. Gov. Gardner signing resolution ratifying amendment to U.S. Constitution granting universal franchise to women / Carl Deeg. Missouri, 1919. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003668342/.
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