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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2019

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

PROCLAIMING APRIL 10, 2019, TO BE "LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF RHODE

ISLAND 100TH ANNIVERSARY DAY"

     Introduced By: Senator Dawn M. Euer

     Date Introduced: April 09, 2019

     Referred To: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar

     WHEREAS, The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan organization that encourages

the informed and active participation of citizens in government, works to increase understanding

of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy; and

     WHEREAS, Carrie Chapman Catt, the President of the National Woman Suffrage

Association, proposed the National League of Women Voters as a department of the National

Woman Suffrage Association at their convention in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 19, 1919, a

year before the 19th Amendment was passed; and

     WHEREAS, A state charter was secured for the League of Women Voters of Rhode

Island State Division by the Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association on April 1, 1919; and

     WHEREAS, A state charter was secured for the League of Women Voters of Providence

by the Rhode Island Suffrage Party April 9, 1919; and

     WHEREAS, For 100 years, the League of Women Voters of Rhode Island and the

League of Women Voters of Providence have collaborated with other organizations to increase

civil participation and achieve mutual goals such as fair elections, open government, campaign

finance reform, quality schools and libraries, women’s rights, and environmental issues; now,

therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

hereby congratulates the League of Women Voters of Rhode Island and the League of Women

Voters of Providence, as well as the League of Women Voters of Newport County, the League of

Women Voters of South County, and the League of Women Voters Members-at-Large, on the

occasion of their 100th Anniversary; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode and Providence Plantations hereby

proclaims April 10, 2019, as “League of Women Voters of Rhode Island 100th Anniversary

Day”; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Ms. Jane Koster, President of the Rhode Island

League of Women Voters.

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