Tuhia he tohumate mo tēnei wāhanga - I te tau 1920 ko Laura Clay tētahi o ngā kaiwhakarewa o te Democratic Women's Club o Kentucky. I taua tau ano, i mahi ia hei karere i te 1920 Democratic National Convention
i tū ki San Francisco i waenganui i te 28 Pipiri me te 6 Hōngongoi 1920. Laura Clay hanga American hītori rite tetahi o nga wahine tuatahi (i te taha o hoa Kentucky delegate Cora Wilson Stewart) ki te kia whakatakotoria i roto i rite te kaitono mo te tono peresideni o te rōpū tōrangapū nui; a, whakawhetai ki te tumuaki o te Kentucky delegates 'Augustus Owsley Stanley ko Stewart nga wahine tuatahi e rua ki te riro i te pōti ia mo te kaitono mo te peresideni. I te pōti 44th, ka tohua a Kawana James M. Cox o Ohio hei kaitono mo te perehitini mo te Pāti Manapori me Franklin D. Roosevelt, te kaiawhina o te Hekeretari o te Navy mai i New York, hei kaitiaki tuarua mo te perehitini. I tautokohia e te kaupapa a te Pāti Manapori te mana pōti a nga wahine; i muri i te pakanga uaua o nga pooti i te U.S. Congress me nga whare ture o te kawanatanga, ka uru te Nineteenth Amendment ki te US Constitution i te Akuhata 26, 1920. (E kī ana, "E kore e whakakahoretia, e whakaitihia rānei te tika pōti a ngā tāngata o Te Hononga o Amerika e Te Hononga o Amerika, e tētahi Kāwanatanga rānei, nā te ira tangata".)