Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

Historians have unearthed new evidence that, because of a strange loophole in New Jersey's state constitution, more than 100 women voted before 1807. But that power didn't last.

For a brief time in history, New Jersey was the only place in America where women could vote. Between 1776, when the state constitution permitted “all free inhabitants, of this State, of full ...

New Jersey has the distinction of being the only colony of the original 13 whose constitution permitted women to vote. Ironically, it is one of the last to guarantee full suffrage, through the ...

Play about women’s suffrage leader from New Jersey performed in Jersey City. Aug 28, 2020, 1:24am Updated on Aug 28, 2020. By: News 12 Staff.

The New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage argued that suffrage logically involves the holding of public office, which is “inconsistent with the duties of most women.” ...

VINELAND, N.J. — On March 10, 1868, Portia K. Gage attempted to be the first of her sex to vote. Gage, a New Jersey resident, was trying to vote in the the presidential election between Ulysses ...

The fight for equality. For women in the Garden State, the women's suffrage movement was a battle to restore a right lost. New Jersey's first constitution in 1776 gave voting rights to “all ...

Carol Simon Levine will be portraying Lillian Feickert, president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association from 1912 to 1920, who lived in Plainfield.