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Petitions for Constitutional Amendment to Woman's Suffrage
Description: Twelve petitions from Franklin County, Ohio, dated 1914. The petition requested, "That section 1 of Article V of the Constitution be amended so as to extend the suffrage to women." There are three images of each petition. Only male voters could sign the petitions. In 1912, the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2527_1914_01
Subjects: Ohio Women; Social movements; Ohio Government; Women--Suffrage;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)