Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, July 23rd, 1890, Wyoming is celebrating their newly one statehood.

Wyoming had become the 44th state earlier in the month, and here's what's interesting

about this day the 23rd.

On this day a woman by the name of Teresa Jenkins

was invited to deliver the keynote speech

at the statehood celebration and Jenkins was among other things

a strong advocate for women's right to vote.

This was a big part of Wyoming's identity at the time that the Wyoming Territory had already

granted women the right to vote for about 20 years and they made keeping that right to vote a

precondition for joining the union.

So this is our chess talk about Wyoming, the rocky road towards women's suffrage and

this larger question of why it was the territories that sometimes

seemed to be at the forefront of this issue. I am joined as always by

Nicole Hammer of Columbia. Hello Mickey. Hey Jody. And back with us is Mae Figgins

of the New York Times and the podcast Mothers of Invention

and many other wonderful things. Hello mate. Hi Jody I haven't been to Wyoming so I

feel you haven't fraudulent. How many states have you been to Meve? I think maybe

around eight you know, however many there are, 20 or something.

Yeah, your math checks out.

So you're phrase that, your accent checks out. Your accent checks out.

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