August 26, 2020-Women's Equality DayPROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others first seriously proposed women's right to
vote at Seneca Falls, New York, on July L9, 1848; and
WHEREAS, Susan B. Anthony joined forces with Stanton in 1851, and they worked together
over the next half-century for women's right to vote; and
WHEREAS, Carrie Chapman Catt, founder and early leader of the League of Women Voters,
entered the struggle later and became a leader in the suffragist movement that helped lead it to
victory; and
WHEREAS, these three women and so many more endured hardships of public humiliation,
terms in jail, ridicule - and they did it so that the women of yesterday, today and tomorrow can
exercise their right to vote; and
WHEREAS, On August 26,1920,just days after Tennessee became the thirty-sixth (and last-
needed) state to ratify the amendment, the United States Secretary of State signed the
proclamation enacting the 1-9th amendment; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE lT RESOLVED that l, Robert Putaansuu, Mayor of the City of Port
Orchard, do hereby proclaim the 26th day of August 2020, as:
"Women's Equality Day"
to celebrate passage of the L9th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right
to vote and I urge citizens in the City of Port Orchard to join me in this special observance.
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Signed the 4th day ofAugust 2020
Robert Pu uu, Mayor