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West Virginia became the 34th state to ratify the 19th amendment for women's suffrage
In a 15-14 vote in the state senate on March 10, 1920, West Virginia became the 34th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote. Many years earlier, in 1867, just as Kansas was holding ...
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