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Manuscript/Mixed Material Elihu Root reaffirms his opposition to woman suffrage

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Title

  • Elihu Root reaffirms his opposition to woman suffrage

Created / Published

  • Geneva Daily Times, Geneva, New York, 24-Feb-09

Headings

  • -  New York legislature-Suffrage hearings
  • -  Wadsworth, James
  • -  Root, Elihu
  • -  anti-suffrage arguments
  • -  Davis, Senator George
  • -  Heath, Mrs. Julian
  • -  Clippings

Genre

  • Clippings

Notes

  • -  Describes Root's appearance at the Judiciary Committee hearing on the suffrage amendment. U.S. Senator Root, Committee Chairman Senator George Davis and Mrs. Julian Heath oppose woman suffrage
  • -  Reprints excerpts from Elihu Root's 1894 speech against the suffrage amendment, in which he contented that it was a great mistake for women to try to usurp the political role of men when true government is centered in the home where women rule supreme.

Medium

  • clipping

Call Number/Physical Location

  • JK1881 .N357 sec. XVI, no. 3-9 NAWSA Coll
  • series: Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911; Scrapbook 7 (1908-1909)

Source Collection

  • Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911

Repository

  • Rare Book And Special Collections Division

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Online Format

  • image
  • online text

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection.

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Chicago citation style:

Elihu Root reaffirms his opposition to woman suffrage. Geneva Daily Times, Geneva, New York, 24-Feb-09, 1909. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller001239/.

APA citation style:

(1909) Elihu Root reaffirms his opposition to woman suffrage. Geneva Daily Times, Geneva, New York, 24-Feb-09. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller001239/.

MLA citation style:

Elihu Root reaffirms his opposition to woman suffrage. Geneva Daily Times, Geneva, New York, 24-Feb-09, 1909. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller001239/>.