Author's Entries

• Sylvia Williams Thompson (1873–1950)

  In January 1920, during a special session called by Governor Ben W. Olcott, Sylvia Thompson—the lone female legislator in the Oregon State Senate—introduced a resolution to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Oregon legislators passed House Joint Resolution 1, making Oregon the twenty-fifth state to ratify the amendment …

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