Oregon Measure 1, Suffrage for Women Taxpayers (1910)

Oregon Measure 1
Election date November 8, 1910
Topic Suffrage
Status d Defeated
Type Constitutional amendment	Origin Citizens

Oregon Measure 1 was on the ballot as an initiated constitutional amendment in Oregon on November 8, 1910. It was defeated.

A "yes" vote supported this state constitutional amendment to provide women taxpayers with the right to vote.

A "no" vote opposed this state constitutional amendment to provide women taxpayers with the right to vote.

Oregon is one of two states that approved women's suffrage constitutional amendments on their sixth attempts. Voters approved women's suffrage in 1912, after rejecting suffrage in 1884, 1900, 1906, 1908, and 1910.

Election results

Oregon Measure 1
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		35,270	37.39%
No		59,065	62.61%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Measure 1 was as follows:

“

Proposed by Initiative Petition Women’s taxpaying suffrage amendment, granting to taxpayers, regardless of sex, the right of suffrage. --- Vote YES or NO.

”

Full Text

The full text of this measure is available here.

Background

State women's suffrage ballot measures

See also: State women's suffrage ballot measures

The 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified on August 18, 1920. The 19th Amendment prohibited the government from denying or abridging the right to vote on account of sex. Therefore, women were guaranteed the right to vote in the U.S. Constitution.

Before the 19th Amendment, the women's suffrage movement also campaigned for changes to state constitutions to provide women with a right to vote. Suffragists Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler, in their book Woman Suffrage and Politics (1923), wrote that state ballot measures "spun the main thread of suffrage activity" in the movement's earlier years and were seen as stepping stones to national suffrage. "I don't know the exact number of States we shall have to have," said Susan B. Anthony, "but I do know that there will come a day when that number will automatically and resistlessly act on the Congress of the United States to compel the submission of a federal suffrage amendment." When asked about federal support for women's suffrage in 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt advised the suffrage movement to "Go, get another State."

Between 1867 and August 18, 1920, 54 ballot measures to grant women's suffrage were on the ballot in 30 states. Fifteen (15) of the ballot measures were approved, giving women the right to vote in 15 states. Since women did not have suffrage until after the ballot measures were approved, male voters decided the outcome of suffrage ballot measures.

Map of states that voted on suffrage ballot measures

The following is a map of which states approved and which states rejected women's suffrage ballot measures before the 19th Amendment. Suffrage was on the ballot at least once in 30 of 48 states (Alaska and Hawaii were not states until 1959). Of the 15 states that passed suffrage ballot measures, eight failed to pass measures on their first attempts. In Oregon and South Dakota, for example, suffrage measures were placed before voters at six elections before one was passed. In Utah and Wyoming, voters decided and approved women's suffrage as one provision of a ballot measure to adopt a state constitution. You can click on a state to learn more about the number of women's suffrage ballot measures that were voted on and in what years in that state.

See also

1910 Measures

• 1910 Measures
• Sex and gender issues on the ballot
• Women's suffrage on the ballot
• 1910 legislative sessions

Oregon

• Oregon ballot measures
• Oregon ballot measure laws

News and analysis

• Ballot measure lawsuits
• Ballot measure readability
• Ballot measure polls

External links

• Oregon Blue Book Initiative, Referendum and Recall: 1908-1910
• State of Oregon Official Voters' Pamphlet 1910