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Show ' Nineteenth Amendment Wyoming wus the pioneer suffrage stnte. It legalised the voting of women In 180!) and carried the provision pro-vision into Its stste constitution when admitted In ISiid. i Women of 12 states voted In the Presidential election of 1918. These (rtntes were Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho. Washington, California, Art zona,. Kansas, Oregon, Nevada, Montana Mon-tana and Illinois. On August 20, t02O, the United States secretary of stnte proclaimed the Nineteenth amendment In effect, It having beon ratified between be-tween June 10, 1919, and August 18, 1920, by three-quarters of the states. |