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90th Anniversary of 19th Amendment and Women’s Right to Vote: Famous Female Politicans
Today marks the 90th birthday of the legislation that gave women a voice in American government.
On this day in 1920, the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, forbidding any federal, state or local government body from denying a citizen the right to vote because of sex, giving women the right to vote.
Here are three influential female politicians in the last decade:
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice is an American professor, politician, diplomat and author. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush. Rice was the first African-American woman secretary of state, as well as the second African American (after Colin Powell), and the second woman (after Madeleine Albright). Rice was President Bush’s National Security Advisor during his first term.
Michelle Obama
Michelle is the wife of the forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School before returning to Chicago and to work at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her future husband. Subsequently, she worked as part of the staff of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Hilary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. In the 2008 election, Clinton was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Christopher Rogers 
Shana Aborn 
Joanna Mazewski 
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