The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution secured the right to vote to women.
This is one of the 63 delegations in the convention, accounting for 21 of 1451 people who took part.
Members (21):
Name | Visualize | Details | Delegations |
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George M. Bowers | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Johnson N. Camden | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Edward Cooper | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Henry G. Davis | Visualize | (November 16, 1823 — March 11, 1916) Davis was a farmer, railroad conductor, businessman, and politician. Henry Davis as born in Maryland and moved to West Virginia in 1858. While in West Virginia, he pursued interests in railroad building and lumber. He also served in the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1865, and in the State Senate from 1868 to 1870. Davis was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-Second Congress, and served from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1883. After his service in Congress, he resumed business interests in banking and coal mining until his death in 1916. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/D000103] | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Leonard S. Echols | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Davis Elkins | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Eustace Gibson | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Nathan Goff, Jr. | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Nathan Goff | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Wells Goodykoontz | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Frank Hereford | Visualize | (July 4, 1825 — December 21, 1891) Hereford was an American politician and lawyer. Frank Hereford was born in Fauquier County, Virginia. He studied law art McKendree College in Illinois and was admitted to the bar in 1845. He moved to California in 1849, where he served as district attorney of Sacramento County from 1855 to 1857. He moved back to West Virginia in 1857 and was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1871 to January 31, 1877. He was again elected to the the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Allen Caperton and served in the Senate from 1877 to 1881. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000527] | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
John E. Kenna | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Adam B. Littlepage | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Benjamin F. Martin | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Matthew M. Neely | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Stuart F. Reed | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Charles P. Snyder | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Howard Sutherland | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Benjamin Wilson | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
William L. Wilson | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |
Harry C. Woodyard | Visualize | None | West Virginia Delegation (This negotiation) |