The year 2020 marks not only the centennial of the 19th Amendment, but also the sesquicentennial of voting rights for Utah women. The Utah Territorial Legislature granted voting rights to women in February 1870. On February 14 of that year, Utah women became the first in the nation to cast votes under an equal suffrage law. From that time forward, Mormon women became staunch supporters of women’s voting rights, working through the decades with national leaders like Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul to help secure national voting rights for women through an amendment to the U.S. Read more