Hillary's mother was born on June 4, 1919, on the same day the Congress approved the NIneteen Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
The Nineteenth Amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1878, though it took forty-one years for the Congress to approve the amendment and submit it to the states for ratification .
The Nineteenth Amendment wasratified by the requisite number of states a year later, on August 18, 1920 when Tennessee's ratification became the final vote needed to add the amendment to the Constitution.
Hillary Diane Rodham (later Hillary Rodham Clinton) was born October 26, 1947. She ran for the Presidency of the United States in 2008 and 2016 on the Democratic ticket. In 2016 she defeated her Republican opponent by almost 3 million votes, though she lost the election in the Electoral College.
On June 7, 2016, when she accepted the Democratic Nomination for the Presidency, Hillary marked this landmark event in women's history by invoking the memory of her mother, born before women had the right to vote.
Clinton further said of Dorothy Rodham: "She taught me never to back down from a bully, which it turns out was pretty good advice."
Happy birthday, Dorothy. We continue to be guided by your advice and your daughter.
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June 4, 2017
