If Martha Washington had been a resident of New Jersey while she was First Lady, she could have voted. In 1790 New Jersey granted “all free inhabitants,” including women, the right to vote as long as they were not held in slavery or indentured servitude. #ElectionDay

Three years before the end of Jefferson’s presidency, in 1806, the state of NJ revoked from its women residents the #righttovote. It was surely just a matter of coincidence that Jefferson had declared that politics was not a matter intended for the “tender breasts of ladies.”

Wyoming Territory had given its women residents the right to vote, granted in 1869. Utah Territory did so in 1870 but rescinded it seventeen years later, just as the 1790 right to vote for New Jersey women had been revoked. #ElectionDay

Lucretia Garfield argued in favor of women’s suffrage in college debating classes. Towards the end of her life, Garfield's widow came out for the 1912 Progressive Party candidate, Theodore Roosevelt. She died two years before the 19th amendment passed. #ElectionDay

When both a pro-suffrage and anti-suffrage group were received on the same day by President McKinley, First Lady Ida McKinley would only meet with Susan B. Anthony and asked that her support be announced at a suffragist convention that night. #ElectionDay

In 1896, Utah restored suffrage and Idaho passed it, joining Wyoming (1890) and Colorado (1893) as the four states #women were able to vote in the presidential election. #WomensSuffrage #ElectionDay