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tucked in the pocket of 24 year old, Harry Burn, a young Tennessee legislator was from his mother. Although he was wearing a red rose on the floor of the legislature signalling he was anti -suffrage, he had just read the letter , from his mother, Febb E. Burn, in which she asked him to "be a good boy" and vote yes for woman's rights. The voting rights bill passed in 1920. After the vote ,Harry Burn then stated"I knew that a mother's advice is always safest for a boy to follow and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification," he said. "I appreciated the fact that an opportunity such as seldom comes to a mortal man to e 17 million women from political slavery was mine."
Happy Mothers Day
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