Full Text of HR0382 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Illinois had long been at the forefront of the | 3 | | movement to provide women the right to vote; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, In Illinois, the women's suffrage association was | 5 | | established in Earlville in LaSalle County in 1855, just seven | 6 | | years after the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls | 7 | | New York, which called for suffrage for women; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois Woman Suffrage Association, the | 9 | | first statewide suffrage organization, was established in | 10 | | 1869; the organization became the Illinois Equal Suffrage | 11 | | Association in 1981; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, In 1891, Illinois enacted a law allowing women the | 13 | | right to vote for elective school offices; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, In 1913, Illinois enacted the Presidential | 15 | | Suffrage Bill, which gave Illinois women the right to vote in | 16 | | federal and municipal elections, which were not otherwise | 17 | | restricted to men only by the Illinois Constitution; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, With the enactment of that law, Illinois became | 19 | | the first state east of the Mississippi River to give women | 20 | | such right to vote for President of the United States and is |
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| 1 | | credited with being a major positive influence in advancing the | 2 | | women's suffrage movement in the United States; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, On June 4, 1919, the proposed 19th Amendment to | 4 | | the United States Constitution was passed by the United States | 5 | | Congress and sent to the States for ratification; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, 100 years ago on June 10, 1919, Illinois became | 7 | | the first State to ratify the 19th Amendment, one hour prior to | 8 | | Wisconsin; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Illinois led the way for the necessary | 10 | | three-fourths of the States to ratify the 19th Amendment, which | 11 | | became part of the Constitution on August 26, 1920; therefore, | 12 | | be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 14 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 15 | | we declare June 10, 2019 as a day to celebrate women's right to | 16 | | vote and the important role Illinois played in achieving that | 17 | | right in the United States.
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