Proclamations, Opinions, Awards - Historical - 2/25/2020
CITY OF GLENDALE
WHEREAS, throughout the year 2020, the United States will celebrate the 100th
anniversary of the 19th Amendment and women’s constitutional right to vote; and
WHEREAS, in 1848, brave and courageous suffragists began their organized efforts
seeking women’s equality and the right to vote during the first women’s rights convention
in Seneca Falls, New York; and
WHEREAS, in 1912, Frances Lillian Willard Munds organized efforts leading to the
Arizona ballot initiative granting women’s suffrage, which passed by a three-to-one
margin in every county in our state; and
WHEREAS, in January 1918, the 19th Amendment, sometimes called the “Susan B.
Anthony” Amendment, passed the House of Representatives, was approved by the U.S.
Senate in June 1919 and sent to the states for ratification; and
WHEREAS, women have in the past and continue today to make significant, positive
contributions at every level of society: the family, community, county, state, nation and
worldwide.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Jerry P. Weiers, Mayor of the City of Glendale, Arizona, on
behalf of the City Council, do hereby proclaim, March 2020, in honor of Women’s
History Month, as:
Centennial Women’s Suffrage Month
And urge all citizens to salute the valiant efforts of the Glendale Woman’s Club, whose
119 years of dedication to our community, Arizona and our nation’s celebration of the
Women’s Suffrage Centennial.
In witness hereof, I hereunto set my hand this 25th day of February 2020.
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MAYOR
Attest.
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CITY CLERK