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Dessie M Gaines 1916 - 1997

Dessie M Gaines of Wilmington, New Hanover County, NC was born on May 31, 1916, and died at age 81 years old on December 4, 1997.

Dessie M Gaines

Wilmington, New Hanover County, NC 28405

May 31, 1916

December 4, 1997

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1916

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May 31, 1916

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1997

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December 4, 1997

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In 1916, in the year that Dessie M Gaines was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.

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In 1920, Dessie was merely 4 years old when the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, passed both Houses of Congress and was sent to the States to ratify. In August, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the Amendment and it became law eight days later. Mississippi ratified it in 1984.

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