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Suffrage Issue Dominates Opening Kentucky Session
The 1920 Kentucky Legislature opened with ratification of the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment advancing in the Senate by 30 to 8 and in the House by 71 to 25. Senate Republicans and Democrats sparred over committee control as Democrats named a Rules Committee to govern proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Kentucky
Senate Rules Committee
Charles M. Harriss
Versailles
Clem Nunn
Marion
Frank Rivers
Hopkinsville
Hayes Carter
Elizabethtown
William A. Perry
Louisville
Robert C. Simmons
Covington
L. M. Smith
Harrodsburg
J. W. Harlan
Danville
J. D
House
Lazarus
C. W. Burton
Haynes Carter
A. A. Demunbrum
T. T. Gardner
J. T. Morris
L. M Smith
Demunbrum
Morris
Messrs. Adams
Ballard
Boling
Clark
Day
Duffy
Hamilton
Haynes
Holliday
Humphreys
Meyers
Huntsman
J. W. Johnson
Kelly
Kimbrough
Knott
Laughlin
Minor
Nelson
Rogers
Strange
J. Mack Thompson
Wheeler
Williamson
Winn
Harlan
Boyle County
Carter Hardin County
Gardner Bardwell
Kentuccky
Simmons Covington
Hiram Brock
Harris
Executive Department
Senate of
Brock
United States Senate
Nunn
Antle
Jamestown