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 Some 40 of his Senate colleagues joined the League of Women voters of the

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United States last week in honoring
Arizona's Senator Carl Hayden, the

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only man still in Congress who voted
for woman suffrage Present were the

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nation's only two women senators,
Margaret Chase Smith of Maine and Marine

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Neuberger of Oregon. 41 years earlier,
on august 18th 1920 the necessary

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36 states ratified the 19th amendment
to the constitution, granting women

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the right to vote mrs William H Would
the nonpartisan Leagues Nationals

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Secretary, read a letter from mrs
roberta phillips of ST Charles Illinois.

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National president of the League,
Senator Hayden has done a statesman's

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job not only for women's suffrage, but
for all legislation important to

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the nation's progress. The letter said
Chairman of the powerful Senate

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appropriations committee. Senator
Hayden began his congressional service

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in 1912. The year his native Arizona
became a state

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Mrs Haskell Rosenbloom, a member of
the League's National board of

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Directors presented the Arizona
senator with a book relating the

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congressional history of women's
suffrage.

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Mrs Luigi Petrillo, another board
member, described the dramatic moments

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when the League of Women voters parent
organization, the National American

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Woman suffrage Association heard that
Tennessee, the 36th ratifying state

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had put the amendment over the top.

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Then Senator Hayden was given a giant
bouquet duplicating the one

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presented in 1922, Carrie Chapman
Catt, the foremost leader in the then

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victorious suffrage movement. Hayden
recalled that he first advocated

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women's voting rights at the Arizona
Territorial Convention in 1911

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The following year, the new state
accepted his advice and became the 8th

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state to open its polls to the fair
sex on the eve of his historic mission

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to Berlin. Vice President Lyndon B
johnson was among the many to

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congratulate Senator Hayden and to
join the League of Women voters in

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celebrating the 41st anniversary of
american womanhood is crowning

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achievement. The right to vote.

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Senator Hayden. It's unusual for you
to break from your heavy workload

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even to announce your candidacy for
reelection. And there's been quite a

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bit of speculation about your plans
this year, we've been uhh asked to see

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if we can find out, what can you tell
us? The newcomers to Arizona and my

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old friends, a both entitled to know.
Arizona has grown tremendously in

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the last decade and that growth cannot
continue until we have a greater

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supply of water. And I'd like to be
here to participate in that work. And

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I take it you will definitely be a
candidate. Certainly. Well, now, could

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you tell us before we leave Senator,
just what the situation is in regard

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to the central Arizona project. If we
are very hopeful that the case now

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pending before the Supreme Court
decided in Arizona Saver, that event, it

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will be necessary to proceed properly
with providing funds to carry on the

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construction. Thank you very much
decided to Hayden for allowing us to

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visit with youtoday