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Haddam’s First Women Voters

By Elizabeth Malloy, Executive Director, HHS.

The 19th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees all women who are US citizens the right to vote.

As we are about to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment we recognize the first women in Haddam to register to vote on September 20, 1919.
Almira L. Dickinson
Cynthia O. Dickinson
Bell D. Russell
Ethel U. Williams
Ella L. Hayden
Miss Phila Parmelee
Jennie C. Dickinson
Hattie H. Clark
Clara L. Spencer
Ida Y Carlson
Mabel D. Porter
The following fall 168 additional women registered to VOTE!

Photo by Elizabeth Malloy.

1 COMMENT

  1. Lisa,

    Thank you for this article about Haddam’s women exercising their newly won right to vote. Today we take so much for granted.

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