# 2444 - 1990 25c Wyoming Statehood
25¢ Wyoming Statehood
City: Cheyenne, WY
Quantity: 169,495,000
Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Lithographed and engraved
Perforations: 11
Color: Multicolored
Wyoming Grants Women’s Suffrage
Since the 1840s, there was a growing movement to grant women the same rights as men. As early as 1854, the Washington Territory attempted to give women the right to vote but was unsuccessful. Nebraska tried as well in 1856. A bill was even introduced to Congress after the Civil War to give women in all the territories the right to vote, but that failed as well. A similar bill was also brought before Congress in 1868 that would have extended the right to women in all states and territories. In 1869, the Dakota Territory came within one vote of passing a women’s suffrage bill.
Meanwhile, in Wyoming, women’s rights and women’s suffrage were also on the minds of the territory’s government. Earlier in 1869, they had passed laws allowing women to sit in a special area where the lawmakers met. They also passed a law guaranteeing teachers (which were mostly women) would be paid the same whether they were men or women. And they gave married women property rights separate from those of their husbands.
Click here to read the act that granted women’s suffrage in Wyoming.
25¢ Wyoming Statehood
City: Cheyenne, WY
Quantity: 169,495,000
Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Lithographed and engraved
Perforations: 11
Color: Multicolored
Wyoming Grants Women’s Suffrage
Since the 1840s, there was a growing movement to grant women the same rights as men. As early as 1854, the Washington Territory attempted to give women the right to vote but was unsuccessful. Nebraska tried as well in 1856. A bill was even introduced to Congress after the Civil War to give women in all the territories the right to vote, but that failed as well. A similar bill was also brought before Congress in 1868 that would have extended the right to women in all states and territories. In 1869, the Dakota Territory came within one vote of passing a women’s suffrage bill.
Meanwhile, in Wyoming, women’s rights and women’s suffrage were also on the minds of the territory’s government. Earlier in 1869, they had passed laws allowing women to sit in a special area where the lawmakers met. They also passed a law guaranteeing teachers (which were mostly women) would be paid the same whether they were men or women. And they gave married women property rights separate from those of their husbands.
Click here to read the act that granted women’s suffrage in Wyoming.