or Combs,
who had sponsored the suffrage cause among the Democrats in the last
two Legislatures. The convention closed with an address by Mrs.
Emmeline Pankhurst of England the following night, and on the next day
the officers and members of the association went to Frankfort again to
see the Governor sign the ratification.

As it was not certain that the amendment would be completely ratified
before the general election in November the Legislature decided to
pass a bill giving to women the right to vote for presidential
electors. On March 11 it passed the House and on the 15th the Senate
by almost the same vote given on the Federal Amendment. Only three
Senators voted against it--Thomas J. Gardner of Bardwell, Hayes Carter
of Elizabethtown and C. W. Burton of Crittenden. On the 16th bills
were passed making necessary changes in the election laws to insure
the voting of the women in the primaries and at the regular elections.

Kentucky women who rendered conspicuous service in the lobby work at
Washington under the auspices of the National Suffrage Association
were Mrs. John Glover South, Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith, Mrs. Edmund
M. Post, Mrs. Samuel Castleman, Mrs. Charles Firth and Mrs. Samuel
Henning. They were equally helpful in the State political work and
among many others who deserve especial mention are Mrs. James A.
Leech, Mrs. J. B. Judah and Mrs. Robinson A. McDowell. The association
is indebted to Mr. McDowell for legal assistance. An important factor
was the press work of Miss Eleanor Hume.[56]

The organizing of classes in citizenship was begun in the summer of
1919 and the services of a specialist in politics and history, Miss
Mary Scrugham, a Kentucky woman, were secured to prepare a course of
lectures for their use. These were published in the Lexington _Herald_
and supplied to women's clubs, suffrage associations and newly formed
Leagues of Women Citizens, soon to become Leagues of Women Voters.

The Equal Rights Association voted at its convention in January, 1920,
to change its name to the League of Women Voters as soon as
ratification of the Federal Amendment was complete or Presidential
suffrage granted. The league was fully organized on December 15, with
Miss Mary Bronaugh of Hopkinsville chairman.

The first vice-president of the State Equal Suffrage Association, Mrs.
South, was elected as chairman of the Women's Division of the National
Republican Committee, and the second vice-president, Mrs