HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 4

55th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2021

INTRODUCED BY

Sheryl Williams Stapleton

A JOINT MEMORIAL

REQUESTING THE NEW MEXICO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO INSTALL A PLAQUE IN THE STATE CAPITOL PRESENTED BY THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PASSAGE OF THE NINETEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION GIVING WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

     WHEREAS, the New Mexico state organization daughters of the American revolution is a nonprofit, nonpolitical volunteer women's service organization founded in 1890; and

     WHEREAS, the New Mexico state organization daughters of the American revolution has sixteen chapters in New Mexico; and

     WHEREAS, the membership of the daughters of the American revolution is ethnically and religiously diverse, having in common only their descent from American revolution progenitors; and

     WHEREAS, the organization has as its goals the promotion of education, patriotism, history and historic preservation, including the recognition of significant events in national and state history; and

     WHEREAS, several early members were among the ardent New Mexico suffragists in the fight for women's right to vote; and

     WHEREAS, New Mexico suffragists, men and women alike, valiantly faced down opposition to grant women the right to vote on local, state and national levels;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the New Mexico legislative council be requested to install a plaque in the state capitol presented by the daughters of the American revolution to recognize the significance of the one hundredth anniversary of the passage of the nineteenth amendment to the United States constitution giving women the right to vote; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies this memorial be transmitted to the co-chairs of the New Mexico legislative council, the director of the legislative council service and the New Mexico state organization daughters of the American revolution.

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