Two years after women in Missouri were finally allowed to vote, the citizens of St. James elected the first female mayor in Missouri. Candidate Mayme Ousley grew up in nearby Edgar Springs but moved to St. James after her husband graduated from dental school and set up his practice there. After the passage of the …
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The 26th Amendment passed the U.S. House and Senate in the spring of 1971 and was ratified by the states on July 1, 1971. Georgia was the first state in the nation to lower its voting age from 21 to 18, way back in 1943. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower voiced support for lowering …
Missouri ratified the nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote in national elections.
The Missouri Women’s Suffrage Club was organized for the purpose of gaining the right to vote for women. It was the first organization in the world with women’s suffrage as its sole objective.
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