United States Senate Select Committee on Woman Suffrage

The Select Committee on Woman Suffrage was a select committee of the United States Senate from 1882-1921^[1] It was established to consider an amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote in the United States.

History

The Senate established the select committee on January 9, 1882, when it approved a resolution offered by Senator George Hoar of Massachusetts. The committee was directed to consider "all petitions, bills, and resolves asking for the extension of suffrage to women or the removal of their legal disabilities." The first constitutional amendment granting woman suffrage was proposed January 10, 1878, by Senator Aaron Sargent of California. Similar amendments were introduced and referred to the select committee each successive Congress until 1919, when a resolution that was to become the 19th Amendment to the Constitution passed both houses of Congress.^[2]

The committee became a standing committee in 1909 when Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island submitted a resolution that had the effect of giving all current select committees, including Woman Suffrage, full committee status. The committee was abolished in 1921, along with many other obsolete committees.^[3]

Woman suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony testified before the select committee several times over the year,^[4] the last occurring in 1902.^[2]

Chairmen

Name	Party	State	Years
Elbridge G. Lapham	Republican	New York	1882-1883
Francis M. Cockrell	Democratic	Missouri	1884-1889
Zebulon B. Vance	Democratic	North Carolina	1890-1892
George Hoar	Republican	Massachusetts	1893-1895
James Z. George	Democratic	Mississippi	1897
James H. Berry	Democratic	Arkansas	1898-1899
John W. Daniel	Democratic	Virginia	1900-1901
Augustus O. Bacon	Democratic	Georgia	1902-1907
Alexander S. Clay	Democratic	Georgia	1908-1910
Lee S. Overman	Democratic	North Carolina	1911-1912
Charles S. Thomas	Democratic	Colorado	1913-1916
Andrieus A. Jones	Democratic	New Mexico	1917-1918
James E. Watson	Republican	Indiana	1919-1921

External links

Report of the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage. United States Senate. 52nd Congress, 2nd Session. January 4, 1893.

Sources

↑ Robert C. Byrd. The Senate, 1789-1989, Volume 4: Historical Statistics, 1789-1992. Page 609. Government Printing Office. 1993.
1 2 The Susan B. Anthony Trial: A Chronology
↑ Center for Legislative Archives - Guide to Senate Records: Chapter 13 Woman Suffrage, National Archives
↑ Today in History: March 8, 1884. Library of Congress

Suffrage

Basic topics	Women's suffrage Universal suffrage Voting age Youth suffrage Right of foreigners to vote Demeny voting Suffragette Compulsory voting Disfranchisement Women's liberation movement

By country	Australia 1902 Commonwealth Franchise Act aboriginal women Japan Kuwait New Zealand Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom women Wales Reform Act 1832 Representation of the People Act 1918 1928 Equal Franchise Act United States women African Americans Native Americans timeline foreigners District of Columbia Puerto Rico 15th Amendment 19th Amendment 26th Amendment 1965 Voting Rights Act

Events	Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments Rochester Convention Ohio Women's Convention National Women's Rights Convention 1907 Mud March Black Friday Suffrage Hikes 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession Silent Sentinels Night of Terror "Give Us the Ballot" Selma to Montgomery marches International Woman Suffrage Alliance conferences (1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th)

Related	List of suffragists and suffragettes Timeline of women's suffrage US in majority-Muslim countries Women's suffrage organizations and publications Age of candidacy Women's rights activists 1920 U.S. presidential election Leser v. Garnett Suffragette Memorial Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument National Voting Rights Museum

Popular culture	"The March of the Women" (1910 song) The Mother of Us All (1947 opera) "Sister Suffragette" (1964 song) Shoulder to Shoulder (1974 series) Not for Ourselves Alone (1999 documentary) Iron Jawed Angels (2004 film) Selma (2014 film) Suffragette (2015 film) Susan B. Anthony dollar 2020 US ten-dollar bill

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