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Woodrow Wilson: “I regard the concurrence of the Senate in the constitutional amendment proposing the extension of the suffrage to women…”

On the recordSeptember 29, 1918
I regard the concurrence of the Senate in the constitutional amendment proposing the extension of the suffrage to women as vitally essential to the successful prosecution of the great war of humanity in which we are engaged.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to the Senate on the Nineteenth Amendment

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