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In the Spotlight on Election Day
On November 2, 1920, millions of women voted in their first presidential election. News media shadowed notable suffragists, as they had done two years earlier when Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Garrett Hay were photographed casting their first votes during a midterm election. Longtime partners, both were instrumental in achieving suffrage in New York and nationally. When the twice-married Catt died, she was buried next to Hay, under a shared tombstone: "Here lie two united in friendship for thirty-eight years through constant service to a great cause." |