ned session in 1920 gave women Primary
suffrage in an amendment to the Presidential bill, but the final
ratification of the Federal Amendment in August made all partial
measures unnecessary, as it completely enfranchised women.[144] Thus
after a struggle of seventy years those of Ohio received the suffrage
at last from the national government, but they were deeply
appreciative and grateful to those heroic men of the State who fought
their battles through the years.

FOOTNOTES:

[139] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Harriet Taylor
Upton, treasurer of the National Woman Suffrage Association 1893-1910;
president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association 1899-1908 and
1911-1920.

[140] These conventions were held in the following order: Athens,
Springfield, Cleveland, Sandusky, London, Youngstown, Toledo, Warren,
Columbus, Elyria, Lima, Columbus, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland,
Lima, Dayton, Columbus (last three years).

[141] The executive officers who finished the work of the State
Association were as follows: Honorary president, Mrs. Frances M.
Casement, Painesville; president, Mrs. Upton, Warren; first, second
and third vice-presidents, Zara du Pont, Cleveland; Dora Sandoe
Bachman, Columbus; Mrs. J. C. Wallace, Cincinnati; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Kent Hughes, Lima; recording secretary, Margaret J.
Brandenburg, Oxford; treasurer, Zell Hart Deming, Warren; member of
the National Executive Committee, Mrs. O. F. Davisson, Dayton.
Chairmen: Organization Committee, Elizabeth J. Hauser, Girard;
Finance, Miss Annie McCully, Dayton; Industrial, Rose Moriarty,
Cleveland; Enrollment, Mrs. C. H. Simonds, Conneaut; member Executive
Committee at Large, Mrs. Malcolm McBride, Cleveland.

[142] Miss Allen was counsel in all court cases of the Ohio
suffragists from 1916 to 1920. In 1920 she was elected Judge in the
Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga county (Cleveland), the first woman in
the United States to fill such an office.

[143] Several years before the "wets," this time under the name of the
Stability League, had initiated an amendment, which, if it had been
carried, would have prohibited the submission of the same amendment
oftener than once in six years. Thus the suffragists in 1916, 1917 and
1918 were in the courts for months each year.

[144] In the presidential campaign of 1920 Mrs. Upton was appointed
vice-chairman of the Republican National Executive Committee, the
highest political position ev