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Utah women are trailblazing in political leadership

By Emma Keddington
November 08, 2021 12:00 AM
On Feb. 14, 1870, Seraph Young, a schoolteacher from Salt Lake City, stopped on her way to school and cast a vote in her municipal election, becoming the first American woman to do so.
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Religion

Relief Society played essential role in fight for women’s suffrage

By Harriet Norcross
May 29, 2020 12:00 AM
Editor's note: This is one of two parts commemorating 150 years since Utah women were the first in any U.S. state to vote in 1870. Pioneering women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made key contributions to suffrage and were also key in establishing BYU.
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