Women’s Vote Celebrates 100th Anniversary

Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul has been elected the Commission Chair of the New York State Women’s Suffrage 100^th Anniversary Commemoration Commission, which will be responsible for a series of statewide programs that celebrate women’s suffrage in New York state. The 14-member commission will work to promote the anniversary in 2017, marking 100 years of a woman’s right to vote in New York State and 2020, a century after the 19^th Amendment was ratified giving all women the right to vote as protected by the U.S. constitution.

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