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2. It took a Democratic President, Woodrow Wilson, to get the law passed to give women

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Tue Jul 26, 2016, 06:31 PM

Jul 2016

the right to vote by the 19th Amendment.

It did take a little while, about 6 years, because Wilson was trying to garner support among the Southern Democrats for passage and ratification.

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