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Born in Richland Center, Ada James was an important suffrage leader who campaigned throughout Wisconsin in support of women’s right to vote. In 1919, James mobilized her father, a state legislator, to deliver Wisconsin’s ratification papers to Washington, D. C., making Wisconsin the first state in the Nation to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.
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Richland Center, Wisconsin · United States
