{"id":11321,"date":"2012-06-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11321"},"modified":"2012-06-01T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T23:52:17","slug":"ellen-martin-and-14-other-women-managed-to-vote-in-illinois-in-1891-even-though-illinois-law-didnt-allow-women-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/ellen-martin-and-14-other-women-managed-to-vote-in-illinois-in-1891-even-though-illinois-law-didnt-allow-women-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Martin and 14 Other Women Managed to Legally Vote in Illinois in 1891, Even Though Illinois Law Didn&#8217;t Allow Women to Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/first-woman-to-vote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11322\" title=\"First Woman to Vote\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/first-woman-to-vote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/first-woman-to-vote.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/first-woman-to-vote-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1891, Ellen Martin was the first woman to be able to vote in Lombard, Illinois.\u00a0 She noticed that the Lombard charter on who could vote didn&#8217;t mention gender.\u00a0 This charter superseded Illinois law and, thus, she was legally allowed to vote.\u00a0 She and 14 other women voted in the 1891 elections before the charter was promptly amended.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"First Woman to Vote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/the-first-woman-to-cast-a-vote-in-chicago-did-so-with-her-feet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1891, Ellen Martin was the first woman to be able to vote in Lombard, Illinois.\u00a0 She noticed that the Lombard charter on who could vote didn&#8217;t mention gender.\u00a0 This charter superseded Illinois law and, thus, she was legally allowed to vote.\u00a0 She and 14 other women voted in the 1891 elections before the charter was promptly amended. Reference<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2693,2692,1112,886],"class_list":["post-11321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-election-facts","tag-first-woman-to-vote","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-voting-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11325,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11321\/revisions\/11325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}