Statesman Journal on 2012 Suffrage Centennial

The Statesman Journal covers the 2012 Oregon Woman Suffrage Centennial and the recent reception held in Salem:

Three years may seem early to start planning the 100th anniversary of Oregon women obtaining full voting rights, which voters approved in 1912. But given that women's suffrage was on the ballot six times over 28 years -- four of them by initiative -- maybe an early start is a good thing. More than 50 people came to a meeting at the State Archives Building to start offering ideas for the centennial and ways to pay for them."
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1870: First Oregon suffrage organizations

1878: All Oregon taxpayers, regardless of gender, may vote in school elections

1878: Married women’s property act passes Oregon legislature

1884: Woman suffrage on ballot 1st time

1896: Idaho women achieve the vote

1900: Woman suffrage on ballot 2nd time

1906: Woman suffrage on ballot 3rd time

1908: Woman suffrage on ballot 4th time

1910: Woman suffrage on ballot 5th time

1910: Washington State women achieve the vote

1911: California women achieve the vote

1912: Oregon women achieve the vote!

1914: Marian Towne, elected to Oregon Legislature from Jackson County

1920: Nineteenth Amendment ratified

1936: Nan Wood Honeyman, first Oregon woman elected to U.S. Congress, House of Representatives

1977: Norma Paulus elected Secretary of State, first woman elected to statewide office

1990: Barbara Roberts first woman elected governor of Oregon

2012: Oregon Woman Suffrage Centennial

2020: Nineteenth Amendment Centennial

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