Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise today in honor of the 90th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote on August 26, 1920, and to acknowledge the celebration of this anniversary by the community of Las Cruces, NM. The struggle for the right to vote began in 1848 at a convention in Seneca Falls, NY, hosted by Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann McClintock, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This convention began the seventy-two year struggle by women to win the right to vote, which was also a struggle to rise from second class citizenship and a struggle to gain equality. Women throughout the United States are empowered by the efforts of the brave and pioneering suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul. These women serve as an inspiration to those who secure leadership positions in industry, government, the military, and academia. Las Cruces was founded in 1849 and became a town of the Territory of New Mexico in 1907. After gaining the right to vote, the women of Las Cruces sought elected office. These women include Bertha Paxton, who was the first female elected to the New Mexico State House of Representatives in 1922, Mrs. E. C. Wade, who was the first female elected as a Trustee in the town of Las Cruces in 1932, Ellen Steele, who was the first female elected as a New Mexico State Senator in 1985 from Dona Ana County and Dolores C. Archuleta who was the first Native American female elected to the Las Cruces City Council in 2001.…”