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The 18th Amendment was passed by the House of Representatives on December 18, 1917; and ratified on January 16, 1919.It went into effect on January 17, 1920(It was repealed by the 21st Amendment on December 5th 1933.)
In January 1928, Woodrow Wilson announced that women's suffrage was urgently needed as a "war measure", during World War One. The House of Representatives passed the federal woman suffrage amendment 274 to 136, but it was opposed in the Senate and was defeated in September 1918. Another attempt in February 1919 also ended in a failure.In May 1919 the House of Representatives again passed the amendment 304 to 89 and on the 4th June 1919 the Senate finally gave in and passed it by 66 to 30. On the 26th August the 19th Amendment was certified by the Secretary of State.The women's right to vote was ratified on the 18thAugust 1920.One thing to consider is the fact that not all women in America were given this right to vote. As American Indian women were not citizens at this point in time, they were not given the right to vote until 1924. This was the year that American Indians were given citizenship.
Charles Curtis, Republican-Kansas, 1/8th Kaw served as U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator and Vice President. In the Senate, he also served as President Pro Tempore of the Senate and Secretary of the Senate Republican Conference (1911-1913), Senate Republican Minority Whip (1915-1919), Majority Whip (1919-1925) and Majority Leader (1925-1929).
The bill that came to be the 19th Amendment was introduced by a senator from California, A.A. Sargent. This was proposed in 1878. In 1919 Representative James Mann of Illinois proposed the house approve the final version of what was called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. The Senate also passed the bill, and by March 1920, the required 35 states approved ratification.
The Senate proposed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 18, 1917. Having been approved by 36 states, the 18th Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919 and effected on January 17, 1920
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This law became effective on October 28, 1919 after the Senate and the House overrode the presidential veto of Woodrow Wilson.
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