Friday, August 24, 2007

August 26

On the 18th in 1918, the State of Kentucky became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which extended the right to vote to women. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification on the 26th in 1918 and it became law.

Bainbridge Colby was also writer Mark Twain’s personal attorney.

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