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Missouri Amendment 1, Women Qualified to Hold Office Measure (August 1921)

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Missouri Amendment 1

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Election date

August 2, 1921

Topic
Constitutional wording changes and Election administration and governance
Status

ApprovedApproved

Type
Legislatively referred constitutional amendment 		Origin

State legislature


Missouri Amendment 1 was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Missouri on August 2, 1921. It was approved.

A "yes" vote supported providing that no person could be disqualified from holding office on account of sex.

A "no" vote opposed providing that no person could be disqualified from holding office on account of sex.


Election results

Missouri Amendment 1

Result Votes Percentage

Approved Yes

159,230 51.87%
No 147,751 48.13%
Results are officially certified.
Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Amendment 1 was as follows:

“

Proposed constitutional amendment enabling women to hold any office in this state.

”


Constitutional changes

See also: Missouri Constitution

The ballot measure added the following underlined text to the Missouri Constitution:[1]

No person shall be disqualified from holding office in this state on account of sex, and those provisions in the Constitution of Missouri requiring that persons, to be eligible for certain offices, must have been qualified voters for a certain number of years, shall not apply to women who have the necessary qualifications of citizenship until after the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States shall have been in effect an equivalent number of years.[2]

Support

Supporters

Officials

  • Gov. Arthur Hyde

Organizations

  • League of Women Voters of Missouri

Arguments

  • Gov. Arthur Hyde (R): "On the amendment which permits women to hold office in this State, there can no longer be any question. Since women have been enfranchised and vested with full power of suffrage, there is no logical reason why they should not be permitted to hold any office in the state government.”


Opposition

Ballotpedia did not locate a campaign in opposition to the ballot measure.

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Missouri Constitution

A simple majority vote is required during one legislative session for the Missouri General Assembly to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 82 votes in the Missouri House of Representatives and 18 votes in the Missouri State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

See also

1921 Measures

Missouri

News and analysis


Footnotes

  1. ↑ Missouri State Legislature, "1919 Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri," accessed July 28, 2022
  2. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source.
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