After an arduous, exhausting, multi-generational fight of over seventy years, American women won the right to vote with the passage of the nineteenth amendment in 1920. The constitutional change was announced by this secretary of state.
Bainbridge Colby, President Woodrow Wilson’s third secretary of state who served from March 23, 1920-March 4, 1921. Colby was able to promote good relations between the U.S. government and Latin American as well as with Mexico after the revolution there.
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