Timeline of women's suffrage in Arizona

1883

• Murat Masterson of Prescott introduces a partial women's suffrage bill for women to vote in school board elections, but it fails.[1]

1884

• The first Arizona chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is formed.[2]

1887

• The Arizona Woman's Equal Rights Association (AWERA) is founded in Phoenix.[3]

1891

• Josephine Brawley Hughes and Laura M. Johns testify on women's suffrage at the Territorial Constitutional Convention.[4][5]
• Women's suffrage fails at the convention by 3 votes.[5]
• Hughes is part of the founding of the Arizona Suffrage Association.[6][4]

1895

• Johns speaks in Phoenix, Tempe, and Tucson on women's suffrage.[7]

1896

• January: Hughes attends the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Convention in Washington, D.C.[7]

1897

• Johns addresses the territorial legislature on women's suffrage.[7]
• A bill is passed that allows women taxpayers to vote in school board elections.[8]

1899

• Carrie Chapman Catt visits Phoenix to advocate for women's suffrage.[9]
• A women's suffrage bill passes the lower house of the legislature.[10]
• The school board suffrage law is declared invalid by the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court.[8]

1901

• Lida P. Robinson works to promote a women's suffrage bill, but it does not pass.[11]

1902

• A women's suffrage convention is held in Phoenix.[12]

1903

• Governor Alexander Oswald Brodie vetoes the women's suffrage bill.[4][13]

1905

• The women's suffrage movement in Arizona stalls, even as NAWSA sends field worker, Mary C. C. Bradford, to revive interest.[13]

1909

• Laura Clay and Frances Munds lobby the territorial legislature on women's suffrage, but the suffrage bill does not pass.[14][13]
• The territorial legislature passes a literacy test law, which is supported by the Arizona Equal Suffrage Association.[15]

1910

• Laura Gregg from NAWSA is sent to Arizona to continue organizing suffrage groups around the state.[16]
• October 10: The Arizona Constitutional Convention meets.[16]
• Suffragists lobby the delegates for women's suffrage to be added to the constitution, but are unsuccessful.[17]

1912

• February 14: Arizona becomes a state.[18]
• A women's suffrage amendment bill fails in the Arizona State Legislature by one vote.[19]
• Munds starts a petition campaign to get women's suffrage on the November ballot.[19]
• July 5: Munds gets more than 4,000 signatures, enough to get the women's suffrage initiative on the ballot.[20]
• October: Suffragists have a women's suffrage booth at the Arizona State Fair.[21]
• November 5: Women's equal suffrage becomes part of the Constitution of Arizona.[22]
• Another literacy test law is passed, reducing the number of Mexican American voters.[15]

1913

• January: The Arizona State Legislature hold an emergency session and passes a bill opening the voter registration books to women.[23]
• May: NAWSA holds a celebratory parade in New York City for Arizona, Kansas, and Oregon granting women's suffrage.[23] Madge Udall represents Arizona.[23]

1914

• Women participate in the Arizona primary elections.[24]
• Congressional Union organizers, Josephine Casey and Jane Pincus, come to Arizona.[25]
  

  Telegram to NAWSA from Sidney P. Osborn November 1, 1916

1915

• March 15: Women in Arizona are allowed to register to vote for all elections.[22]

1916

• April 20: The Suffrage Special stops briefly in Maricopa and then arrives in Tucson.[26][27]
• April 21: The Suffrage Special arrives in Phoenix.[28]

1920

• February 12: Special legislative session convened to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.[29] It is ratified the same day.[30]

1924

• Native Americans gain United States Citizenship.[29]

1948

• The ban on Native Americans voting in Arizona is overturned by the Arizona Supreme Court.[31]

1965

• The Voting Right Act helps Latina voters exercise their right to vote in Arizona.[29]

1970

• English literacy tests for voting are outlawed in the state.[31]

• Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
• De Haan, Amy (Winter 2004). "Arizona Women Argue for the Vote: The 1912 Initiative Campaign for Women's Suffrage". Journal of Arizona History. 45 (4): 375–394 – via JSTOR.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Irwin, Inez Haynes (1921). The Story of the Woman's Party. Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. – via Internet Archive.
• Osselaer, Heidi J. (2009). Winning Their Place: Arizona Women in Politics, 1883-1950. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 9780816534722 – via Project MUSE.