 | The New York Times, October 17, 1920 – Five women are running for the US Senate on third party tickets. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have a woman running for the US Senate, but several women are running for the US House on the major party tickets. The Republican women running for the US House are: Alice M. Robertson, from Oklahoma; Helen C. Statler, from Michigan; Winifred W. Lufkin, from Massachusetts; and, Marion E. Rhodes, from Missouri. The Democratic women running for the US House are: Esther Lovejoy, from Oregon, and Nell K. Mirion, from Idaho. Two more women are running on third party tickets. read clipping The New York Times, October 19, 1920 – The US Supreme Court denies the appeal of the injunction motion filed by the anti-suffragists. read clipping The New York Times, October 24, 1920 – The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) is watching the legal proceedings in each state where women have full suffrage for the first time. The Arkansas attorney general tells Carrie Chapman Catt that women can vote, but they cannot run for office. Massachusetts decides that women, who were married to aliens before 1907, can retain their citizenship and, therefore, are eligible to vote. In Missouri, the attorney general rules that a recent state law, requiring women to use pink ballots, violates the right to secrecy when voting. read clipping |  |
