Sanders Comments on 19th Amendment Centennial

House Majority Leader Mike Sanders, R-Kingfisher, today commented on the 100th year anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote in the United States of America.

“A woman’s right to vote is something we take very seriously in my house,” Sanders said. “It is something that my wife and I have taught our sons. Not only is voting one of the most sacred rights in the preservation our free nation, but it is incumbent upon us that all citizens have the right to choose who should represent them in our government.”

Sanders’ wife, Nellie, is the great-granddaughter of the first woman governor in the United States, Nellie Tayloe Ross, who was governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927. Ross won this position just a little more than four years after women first earned the right to vote.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Ross director of the Bureau of the (U.S.) Mint in 1933, a position she held under three presidents – Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower – until retiring in 1953.