Proceedings of the Electoral College of Massachusetts.
Signed By One Of The First Women Electors
[Suffrage]. (Bird, Anna C.) Proceedings of the Electoral College of Massachusetts. January 8 and 10 1921. [Boston: Wright & Potter, 1921].
8vo.; elaborately marbled gilt and red endpapers; frontispiece photographs; other photographs throughout; bound in a presentation binding of black calf, elaborately stamped in gilt.
The Honorable Anna C. Bird’s copy of the minutes of the 1921 meeting of the Massachusetts Electoral College; a specially bound copy, with Bird’s name stamped in gilt on the lower front cover. Signed by Bird and all the other representatives at the 1921 meeting (including Elizabeth Putnam and Emma Romano), on the last page of the volume. With three photographs of the co-educational Electoral College loosely inserted; the photos are lightly tattered at the edges, else fine.
The Massachusetts Electoral College was the first to include women in its membership. In the minutes of this 1921 meeting, Elizabeth Putnam, representative from Manchester, submits Anna Bird’s name as a candidate. (“...Mr. President and Fellow Members of the Electoral College: I desire to nominate for the office of Elector in this College in the place of Mr. Charles Sumner Bird, who to our great regret is debarred by illness...one who can most fitly represent him, Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird...”) These minutes record the election of Mrs. Bird, a prominent philanthropist and suffragist, by unanimous vote.
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