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Mrs. Livermore was elected President
of the group, which by 1913 had formed the entire state into women
suffrage units working in assembly districts. After a seven-year
effort, these women were rewarded by the election of November 6,
1917, when the suffrage amendment was passed. On January 1, 1919,
women could vote. In its November 10, 1917 issue, the Yonkers Herald said about the suffrage movement:
"From the organization's
inception in 1910, Mrs. Livermore was the
Mrs. Livermore believed that women
should know what they were voting about. She conceived of a national
club for Republican women as a meeting place for the spreading of
political knowledge to women voters: and in 1921 she founded, in New
York City, The Women's National Republican Club. |
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