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WILSON, Woodrow, President. Typed letter signed ("Woodrow Wilson") as President, to Carrie Chapman Catt, Washington, D.C., 25 January 1917. 1 page, 4to.
PRESIDENT WILSON EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY WITH THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
A letter to Catt, head of the influential National American Women Suffrage Association, in which Wilson unequivocally states his support for the arduous struggle for women suffrage. That 75-year campaign was entering its final phases, although it would be three years before two-thirds of the states voted to ratify the 19th Amendment. Wilson writes, "May I not express to you and your organization, as well as to the women of North Dakota, my congratulations upon the passage by the Legislature of that State of a bill granting to the women of the State the right to vote for presidential electors and for municipal officers? As you know, I have a very real interest in the extension of the suffrage to the women, and I feel that every step in this direction should be applauded."
Catt was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900-1904 and again in 1915-1947, and of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance from 1904 to 1923. It was the western states which proved more open to the enfranchisement of women, beginning with Wyoming in 1869; by 1917 eleven other states west of the Mississippi had followed suit. In World War I the large numbers of women in war work had stimulated a change in the public attitude; the strategy Catt and her organization pursued combined pressure on Congress, national publicity and state referendum campaigns.
PRESIDENT WILSON EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY WITH THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
A letter to Catt, head of the influential National American Women Suffrage Association, in which Wilson unequivocally states his support for the arduous struggle for women suffrage. That 75-year campaign was entering its final phases, although it would be three years before two-thirds of the states voted to ratify the 19th Amendment. Wilson writes, "May I not express to you and your organization, as well as to the women of North Dakota, my congratulations upon the passage by the Legislature of that State of a bill granting to the women of the State the right to vote for presidential electors and for municipal officers? As you know, I have a very real interest in the extension of the suffrage to the women, and I feel that every step in this direction should be applauded."
Catt was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900-1904 and again in 1915-1947, and of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance from 1904 to 1923. It was the western states which proved more open to the enfranchisement of women, beginning with Wyoming in 1869; by 1917 eleven other states west of the Mississippi had followed suit. In World War I the large numbers of women in war work had stimulated a change in the public attitude; the strategy Catt and her organization pursued combined pressure on Congress, national publicity and state referendum campaigns.