This is atimeline of women's suffrage in Utah. Women earned the right to vote on February 12, 1870 whileUtah was still a territory. The first woman to vote under equal suffrage laws wasSeraph Young on February 14, 1870. During this time,suffragists in Utah continued to work with women in other states to promote women's suffrage. Women continued to vote until 1887 when theEdmunds-Tucker Act was passed. When Utah was admitted as a state in 1896, women regained the right to vote. On September 30, 1919 Utah ratifies theNineteenth Amendment.Native American women did not have full voting rights in Utah until 1957.

1842

• Female Relief Society of Nauvoo is formed.^[1]

1868

• Newspaper editorial fromThe New York Times about giving Utah women equal suffrage is appreciated in Utah.^[2]
• TheDeseret News posts an editorial about the justice of women's suffrage.^[3]

1870

• February 12: Utah gives women the right to vote.^[4]
• February 14: First woman to vote in the United States under equal suffrage laws wasSeraph Young inSalt Lake City.^[4]

1871

• Susan B. Anthony andElizabeth Cady Stanton visit Salt Lake City.^[5]

1872

• TheWoman's Exponent is created.^[5]

1879

• Emmeline B. Wells represents Utah at the National Woman's Suffrage Convention.^[1]

1880

• A case in the Supreme Court of the Territory attempts to erase the names of several women from the voter registration list, but does not succeed.^[6]

1882

• In Salt Lake City, a registrar refuses to add women to the list of registered voters.^[6] The case is settled and women continue to vote.^[6]

1887

• Passage of theEdmunds-Tucker Act disenfranchises Utah women.^[4]

1888

• Mrs. Arthur Brown andEmily S. Richards represent Utah at the National Suffrage Convention in Washington, D.C.^[7]
• September:Clara Bewick Colby andElizabeth Lyle Saxon visit Salt Lake City to lecture on suffrage.^[7]

1889

• The Utah Woman Suffrage Association is created.^[8]

1890

• Maria Y. Dougall andSarah M. Kimball are delegates to the National Suffrage Convention in Washington, D.C.^[9]

1891

• February 15: Suffragists celebrated the birthday of Susan B. Anthony in Salt Lake City.^[9]
• TheUtah Woman Suffrage Song Book is published.^[10]

1892

• July 29: Suffragists hold a rally inAmerican Fork.^[11]
• Wells travels throughCalifornia andIdaho and speaks on women's suffrage.^[11]

1893

• Suffragists held a garden party in Salt Lake City.^[11]

1895

• February 18: Suffragists hold a convention in theSalt Lake City and County building.^[12]

1896

• Utah women regained the right to vote.^[4]
• Martha Hughes Cannon becomes the first woman elected to state senate.^[2]

1897

• January: Wells attends the National Suffrage Convention inDes Moines, Iowa and describes suffrage efforts in Utah.^[13]

1899

• Carrie Chapman Catt andMary Garrett Hay visit Salt Lake City.^[13]

• Suffragists from Utah obtain 40,000 names for a women's suffrage petition to theUnited States Congress.^[14]
• Utah suffragists send delegates to the National Presidential Conventions.^[15]

1919

• September 30: Utah ratifies theNineteenth Amendment.^[16]

1920

• February 12: Fiftieth anniversary celebration of women's suffrage in Utah.^[17]

1924

• TheIndian Citizenship Act gives more voting rights toNative American women.^[4]

1957

• Utah repeals laws that prevent women who live onNative American reservations from voting.^[4]

• List of Utah suffragists
• Women's suffrage in Utah
• Women's suffrage in the United States

• Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.).The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922).The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.

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