By Betty Hoover DiRisio (LCHS Board Member & Volunteer)
A little more than a year after the 19th Amendment was passed and women won the right to vote, Lawrence County was faced with a first.
Nearly a dozen women became candidates in the 1921 election. The primary saw the largest enrollment of voters in the history of the county. A large percentage of the enrollment was made up of women. It caused quite a stir in political circles where it “had been presumed that the so-called ‘feminine vote’ would be more or less of a negligible quantity.”
The election resulted in many women winning seats as new directors on city and township school boards.