The road to ratification — an extremely difficult process as established by the Constitution — was long and winding. after a fight that began in the post-Civil War era, the amendment was first voted on by the House of Representatives in January of 1918 following an endorsement by President Woodrow Wilson (it narrowly passed). the Senate tabled the amendment until the fall, and when they finally did bring it up for debate, it was defeated by a handful of votes. That proved to be costly for anti-suffrage Senators, many of whom were defeated in the midterm elections that year because of a push by the increasingly powerful National Woman’s Party. When the amendment was brought up again in the spring of 1919, it passed through both the House and the Senate by wide margins.
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