julia butler hanson of washington state is definitely one of the women in this era who ises pushing the ball along for women in terms of the apprenticeship they are serving as a group. she becomes a very influential member of the house. her background was a long-time member of the washington state house of representatives. she has a lot of legislative experience before she ever comes to capitol hill. she was the chair of a couple different agree kmooes in the legislature. she serveds speaker pro tem. one of the things she did in washington was she was a prime mover behind establishing the ferry system in the state. so she has a lot of lgbtive experience. she's not your typical freshman lekted. she quickly moves into a position of influence. she gets a seat on the appropriations committee. she vies for a subcommittee chairmanship. one of the so-called cardinals of the appropriations committee. and she competes for a seat on the interior and related agency subcommittee. it's a tough competition, but she wins out. but the chairman of the committee, the chairman of the full committee, decid

julia butler hanson of washington state is one of the women in this era who is pushing the ball alongomen in terms of this apprenticeship they are serving as a group. she becomes a very influential member of the house. and her background was actually as a member, a longtime member, of the washington state house of representatives. so she has got a lot of legislative experience before she ever comes to capitol hill. she was the chair of a couple different committees in the state legislature. she served quite often as speaker pro tem. one of the things she did in washington was she was a prime mover behind establishing the ferry system. so, she has got a lot of legislative experience. and she is not your typical freshman when she is elected in 1960 in a special election. and she very quickly moves into a position of influence. she gets a seat on the appropriations committee in the house. and by the mid-1960's, she vies for a subcommittee chairmanship, one of the so-called cardinals of the appropriations committee. and she competes for a seat on the interior and related agencies subcommi

were people like lucy stone and julia ward who said we're abolitionist and we'll take this and we'll fight for women next and there were people like elizabeth katie hanson and susan b. anthony who said if we don't get this now and we can't support the 15th amendment if it doesn't include women. so it was a huge split. and they started tearing -- formed competing organizations and tore each other down in the press. but also they continued on two separate avenues for getting sufrage passed. with the stanton and anthony fashion pushing the federal amendment and the stone howe blackwell faction pushing a state by state strategy. because the reconstruction amendments had been hailed as federal overreach by the former confederacy so this was considered safer. it is not crazy to go state by state. if enough states pass suffrage you have more men supporting it that it becomes inevitable. the amendment has languished since just after the civil war. so the 1913 march on the white horse, there was a big old banner that said we demand a constitutional amendmenten enfranchising the women of this country and that is called the great demand banner and you could see it