Timeline of women's suffrage in Nevada

1869

• Curtis J. Hillyer introduces an equal suffrage bill in the Nevada Legislature.[1] The bill passes to amend the state constitution, but it needs to pass a second vote in two years.[1]

1870

• July 4: First women's suffrage convention in Nevada is held in Battle Mountain Station.[2]

1871

• The equal suffrage amendment introduced by Hillyer doesn't pass the required second vote.[1]

1873

• Another equal suffrage resolution is unsuccessfully proposed by Assemblyman Oscar Grey.[3]

1881

• A joint legislative committee in the Nevada Legislature recommends amending the state constitution in favor of women's suffrage, but it fails to gain support.[3]

1883

• Hannah K. Clapp leads the fight to see the Nevada Senate pass a women's suffrage bill, but the bill does not pass the Assembly.[4]

1885

• A women's suffrage resolution passes in the Nevada Legislature and waits to be approved again in two years.[3]

1887

• The women's suffrage resolution fails to pass.[3] However, a resolution for women to run for school offices is passed and waits to be approved again in two years.[3]

1889

• The School office resolution passes and women may run.[3]

1890

• Several women are elected to school trustee positions and two women, Susan Miller and Josephine Taylor are elected as school superintendents.[3]

1894

• November 30: The Lucy Stone Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage League is formed in Austin, Nevada.[4]

1895

• February: An equal suffrage bill passes the Nevada Legislature and waits to be approved a second time in two years.[5]
• May 17: Susan B. Anthony and Anna Howard Shaw stop in Nevada on their way to California.[5]
• October 29-30: State suffrage convention held in Reno.[4] The State Equal Suffrage Association is formed.[6][5]

1896

• September 24: Second state suffrage convention is held in Reno.[6]

1897

• The equal suffrage bill does not pass a second time.[5]
• October 30: Third state suffrage convention is held in Carson City.[7]

1898

• Women's suffrage petitions are sent throughout Nevada.[3]

1899

• The fourth state suffrage convention is held.[7]
• The State Suffrage Association ceases to function.[8]

1907

• Women are declared to be unable to serve as Deputy State Superintendents of Public Instructions by the Attorney General.[3]
• County school superintendents are abolished.[3]

1909

• The Nevada Legislature approved a resolution to allow women to be elected or appointed school superintendents and notaries public.[3]

1911

• February 4 : The Nevada Equal Franchise Society (NEFS) is organized.[9][3]
• Attorney Felice Cohn writes a bill for women's suffrage that passes the Nevada Legislature.[3]
• The 1909 school superintendent and notary bill is passed a second time, now it will go out as a voter referendum.[3]
• Cohn creates the Non-Militant Suffrage Association.[10]

1912

• Anne Henrietta Martin becomes president of NEFS.[11]
• During the 1912 election, suffragists position themselves at the polls and remind voters to vote for candidates who endorse women's suffrage.[3]
• The voters approve the school superintendent and notary amendment.[3]
• NEFS canvasses to find out which politicians support women's suffrage and then campaign for them.[3]

1913

• The 1911 women's suffrage resolution written by Cohn passes a second time and will go out as a referendum.[3]
• October 30: The Nevada Federation of Women's Clubs (NFWC) officially endorses women's suffrage.[12]

1914

• A Nevada Men's League is created with help from James Lees Laidlaw.[13]
• November: The Nevada Association of Women Opposed to Equal Suffrage (NAWOWS) is formed in Reno.[3]
• November 3: Cohn's suffrage amendment wins with a vote of 10,936 to 7,257.[14]
• The Washoe County Equal Franchise Society dissolves and forms the Woman Citizens' Club.[15]

1915

Nevada Next! Votes for Nevada Women, November 3, 1914

• February: At the state suffrage convention in Reno, NEFS is dissolved and the Nevada Woman's Civic League is formed.[16]

1916

• April 26: The Suffrage Special stops in Reno.[17]
• April 27: Suffrage Special delegates meet with Governor Emmet D. Boyle in Carson City and attempt to interest women in a new women's party.[18]
• Martin accompanies the Suffrage Special for part of its journey.[19]
• Nevada women are able to vote for the first time in county and state elections.[3]

1918

• August: The Woman Citizens' Club endorses suffragist Sadie D. Hurst for Nevada Assembly.[20]
• November: Hurst wins and becomes the first woman to hold office in the Assembly.[20]

1919

• January: Hurst proposes a resolution to the United States Congress that would show Nevada's support for a federal suffrage amendment.[20] It passes.[20]
• November: A conference is held in Reno with Carrie Chapman Catt speaking.[21] The Nevada League of Women Voters is formed on the last day of the convention.[21]

1920

• February 7: A special session is called in the Nevada Legislature to speedily ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.[22] Hurst presides over the proceedings and it is passed.[23]

1924

• The Indian Citizenship Act is passed giving Native American women greater voting rights.[24]

• Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
• Ford, Jean; Hulse, James W. (Fall 1995). "The First Battle for Woman Suffrage in Nevada: 1869-1871 – Correcting and Expanding the Record" (PDF). Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. 38 (3): 174–188.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.