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Created by everettherald on Jun 17, 2008

Last updated: 12/07/10 at 04:48 PM

• Washington women take state's top jobs
  2005

  When Chris Gregoire takes office, Washington becomes the first state to simultaneously have a woman governor and two women U.S. senators. Gregoire had earlier been the first woman to become the state's attorney general.

• Washington's first woman governor
  1976

  Dixy Lee Ray elected the state's first woman governor. She serves from 1977 until 1981.

• Washington's first congresswoman
  1959

  Catherine May from Yakima is the first woman from Washington elected to Congress.

• Seattle elects first female mayor of major U.S. city
  1926

  Bertha Knight Landes becomes the mayor of Seattle, the first woman elected to lead a major American city.
  http://www.seattle.gov/CityArchives/Exhibits/Women/panel5.htm

• States ratify the 19th Amendment
  1920

  The 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave the right to vote to women.

• Suffrage movement spreads from the West
  1915

  After Washington gave women the right to vote, the suffrage movement gained success throughout the West. This popular postcard called "The Awakening" shows the sentiment of the day that Lady Liberty spreads enlightenment from West to East.

• Washington gives women the right to vote
  1910

  Washington becomes the fifth state in the country to grant women the right to vote. It was the first state to do so in more than a decade. It sparked the flagging suffrage movement nationwide.

• Snohomish County women active in suffrage
  1909

  Everett's suffrage club was heralded as one of the most active suffrage clubs in the state. Edmonds journalist Missouri Hanna publishes a radical newspaper on the suffrage movement.

• Washington's flower election
  1892

  Washington women head to post offices to vote for the state flower in a women-only election. They choose the rhododendron.

• Washington achieves statehood
  1889

  Washington becomes the young country's 42nd state.
  http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=228

• Washington women lose right to vote
  1888

  The conservative territorial Supreme Court nullifies the right of woman in Washington to vote on what is described as a technicality.

• Washington women first gain right to vote
  1883

  Women in the territory of Washington first gain the right to vote. Eastern Washington farmers hoping to improve the morals of the territory supported the effort. The right was later revoked.

• Susan B. Anthony campaigns in Washington territory
  1871

  National suffragist Susan B. Anthony visits Olympia, the territorial capital of Washington, to rally support for women's right to vote.

• Wyoming gives women the right to vote
  1869

  Wyoming territorial women gain the right to vote. This statue of Wyoming suffragist Esther Hobart Morris stands outside the state's capitol.

• First women's rights convention
  1848

  A group of women gathered at the Wesleyan Chape in Seneca, N.Y., for the first women's rights convention.
  http://www.nps.gov/wori/photosmultimedia/