What's everyone think of President Condi Rice?![]()
Depends on how she gets there. An election, cool. A massive disaster where the SecState becomes President? Not so great.
What's everyone think of President Condi Rice?![]()
Eleanor Roosevelt is probably the best bet here. Let's say that Truman has her put on the ticket in 1948 (he actually thought about doing so, IIRC), and Truman and Roosevelt go on to win the election. The assassination attempt on Truman goes better than it did IOTL, and you have President Eleanor Roosevelt in 1950.
The Western states, if I recall correctly, allowed women's suffrage decades before the East. I think it had to do largely with both men and women working on the frontier just to survive. It tends to tear down the glass ceiling when you don't wanna die of Dysentery.
Maybe have that trend move into the eastward establishment more quickly? I don't think it's necessarily impossible to get a female president relatively early given the right POD's.
There was an assassination attempt on Truman?
What's everyone think of President Condi Rice?![]()
Eons ago (so I can't cite the source) I read something in a New Jersey historical source about women having the right to vote until about 1805. The vote was taken away from them after a notorious referendum (may have been the Newark-vs.-Elizabeth-for-seat-of-Essex-County thing, which would put it like ten miles from where I grew up) when women would allegedly go home, change their dress, and come back to vote again (and some men allegedly voted in male clothes and then again in drag).
I don't know if New Jersey was unique or if others of the original 13 permitted women to vote, then all moved away from it for some reason. But at some point, we had no women voting; then Wyoming (in 1869, when it was created as a territory) became the first place in the US to establish women's suffrage in the process that eventually led to the Constitutional amendment of 1920.