![]() ![]() Mormon women’s status as polygamous female voters thus thrust the national women’s suffrage movement into the center of one of the most far-reaching political and legal questions of its day. Mormon women were proud of their status as voters, and they took their rights of citizenship seriously, but they also strongly supported their religion’s practice of “celestial” or plural marriage, known more widely as polygamy, which the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) had formally endorsed in 1852. Snow in 1870, the year when women in territorial Utah became among the tiny minority of nineteenth-century American women to win the right to exercise the franchise. ![]() “Do you know of any place on the face of the earth, where woman has more liberty, and where she enjoys such high and glorious privileges as she does here, as a Latter-day Saint?” So spoke Eliza R. ![]()
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