In 1870 Utah became the second U.S. territory to remove sex as a restriction to the right to vote. Mormon women remained very engaged in the national battle for suffrage. Likewise, Susan B. Anthony showed interest in Utah politics, as seen in this letter published in The Woman’s Exponent in 1899. Anthony refers to the fact that B. H. Roberts, an opponent of suffrage, was elected to the United States Congress (he was never seated due to his practice of polygamy). A lifetime later, a Mormon woman working on Capitol Hill was still unusual enough to merit a profile in […]
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