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Stone County Historical Museum: A look at Missouri's voting history

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BY BARBARA BOOTH

 

    The Stone County Historical Genealogical Society and Museum will feature the voting history of Stone County and the State of Missouri, as we will take a look at Missouri's first election and voting process.

     

     I was disappointed when I started researching the voting history of Stone County. The County Historical Museum welcomes any historical information containing early voting and election history of Stone County.

 

    According to the Missouri Times, Missouri was the first state to hold an election. The election was held on August 28, 1820.  Missouri voted for a governor, lieutenant governor, one congressman, county officers, president and first members of the Missouri House and Senate on August 28, 1820. Missouri 's first general assembly begin its session September 18, 1920.

 

    Women's suffrage in Missouri started in earnest after the Civil War in 1867, when one of the first women's suffrage groups in the United States was formed on July 3, 1919. In the early 1870s many women voted or registered to vote. Women continued to fight and gained the right to vote in the Presidential Election in April of 1919.

 

    Missouri was the first state to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibiting the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on the citizens "race, color or previous condition of servitude," on January 10, 1870. The amendment went into effect on March 30, 1870.

 

    You are always welcome to stop by the Stone County Historical Museum, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, and a group of dedicated volunteers striving to collect, preserve and maintain the history and heritage of Stone County. Donations are greatly appreciated.

 

The Stone County Historical Museum is located on the left, lower end of Main Street in Crane, and is open Thursday–Friday from 10-4; Saturday 10-2.

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