Wyoming becomes 44th state of US, the first with female suffrage

Wyoming was the first State to incorporate women's suffrage, although women in the Territory of Utah voted first. Other jurisdictions had already given limited suffrage to women who met various property qualifications. A U.S. territory in 1869, Wyoming's first territorial legislature voted to give women the right to vote and to hold public office. A legislature made entirely of men passed the woman's suffrage bill in 1869 entitled An Act to Grant to the Women of Wyoming Territory the Right of Suffrage, and to Hold Office. The territory retained its woman suffrage law even when that law could have jeopardized the Wyoming Territory's application for statehood. In 1890, Wyoming became the first U.S. state allowing its woman citizens to vote.