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let’s say a thank you to the best women in American politics:

Founding Mothers like First Lady Abigail Adams, poet Phillis Wheatley, writer Mercy Otis Warren and Deborah Read Franklin #19thAmendment

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Founding Mothers like First Lady Abigail Adams, poet Phillis Wheatley, writer Mercy Otis Warren and Deborah Read Franklin #19thAmendment #19that100

Early pioneers like the intelligent Angelica Schuyler Church, kind hearted Elizabeth Schuyler, witty Dolley Madison and educated Theodosia Burr #19thAmendment

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Early pioneers like the intelligent Angelica Schuyler Church, kind hearted Elizabeth Schuyler, witty Dolley Madison and educated Theodosia Burr #19thAmendment #19that100

Black Abolitionists like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Maria W. Stewart and Sarah Parker Redmond #19thAmendment

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White Abolitionists like the Grimke sisters, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Julia Ward Howe #19thAmendment

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Prominent suffrage supporters like Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Burns, Alice Paul and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Minority suffrage supporters like Mary Church Terrell, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Adelina Otero-Warren and Wilhelmine Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett
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Minority suffrage supporters like Mary Church Terrell, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Adelina Otero-Warren and Wilhelmine Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett #19thAmendment #19that100

First Republican Rep Jeanette Rankin, first Democratic Senator Hattie Wyatt Caraway, first Democrat Rep Mary Norton and first Republican Senator Gladys Pyle
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First Republican Rep Jeanette Rankin, first Democratic Senator Hattie Wyatt Caraway, first Democrat Rep Mary Norton and first Republican Senator Gladys Pyle #19thAmendment #19that100

First female Dem Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross, GOP Governor Kay A. Orr, Dem cabinet member Frances Perkins and GOP cabinet members Oveta Culp Hobby

Civil rights activists Ida B. Wells, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer and Dorothy Height

Some of the first women to run for President- Victoria Woodhull, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm and Belva Ann Lockwood

Those who fought the Supreme Court- Linda Brown, Mildred Loving, Norma McCorvey and Myra Bradwell

Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor

The women who are on major party tickets- Geraldine Ferraro, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris

Women of firsts- Nancy Pelosi as the first Speaker of the House, first Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, first National Security Advisor @CondoleezzaRice and Attorney General Janet Reno

Early First Ladies like Lucy Hayes, Frances Cleveland, Edith Wilson and Lou Hoover

Later First Ladies like Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Kennedy, Betty Ford and Laura Bush

Some of my faves:
Abigail Adams
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jackie Kennedy
Sojourner Truth
@CondoleezzaRice
Jeane Kirkpatrick
RBG
Shirley Chisholm
@NikkiHaley

#100YearsOfWomenVoting #19thAmendment

#19in100 #WomensVote100

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