This Utah woman proposed the resolution that led the state to ratify suffrage
(Courtesy of National Woman's Party) Elizabeth Hayward, sixth from left, and other local leaders met with U.S. Senator Reed Smoot in 1915 in Salt Lake City to encourage his support of women's suffrage.
Becky Jacobs is a Report for America corps member and writes about women’s issues and the status of women in Utah for The Salt Lake Tribune.