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Telegram in Favor of Woman Suffrage as a War Measure, May 30, 1918

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Image: Telegram in Favor of Woman Suffrage as a War Measure, May 30, 1918

credit: Records of the U. S. Senate, National Archives

The effect of President Woodrow Wilson’s decision to publicly support the woman suffrage amendment as “vitally essential to the successful prosecution of the great war” is evident in this telegram to Idaho senator William Borah, from Mary D. Snyder, 1st District Federation of Woman’s Club Idaho, in favor of suffrage as a war measure.