Alaska was ahead of its time when it signed a bill on March 21, 1913 giving most women the right to vote, joining nine other Western states that had previously approved women’s suffrage.
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There were soon two other women active in the national suffrage movement who found themselves in Alaska. Cornelia Jewett Hatcher and Lena Morrow Lewis gathered signatures to urge the territorial legislature to pass a bill, but it may not have needed much convincing. While the bill was considered progressive, it did not allow all women to vote. It specified that women must be citizens, which excluded a big part of the state’s population, according to State Historian Katherine Ringsmuth.
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