Trump and First Lady Melania Trump held a White House ceremony today to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the amendment's ratification that guaranteed women the right to vote. Trump also signed a proclamation celebrating the occasion. Congress approved the amendment in 1919, but it was officially ratified on August 18th, 1920. Trump touted the number of women serving in Congress and those who own businesses.
100 years to the day that the 19th amendment, allowing women voting rights, was ratified in 1920, President Trump announced Tuesday that he plans to posthumously pardon Susan B. Anthony, a women's suffrage movement icon.
Anthony was arrested in 1872 for voting illegally and was charged a $100 fine. Anthony passed in 1906. Trump teased the pardon while traveling on Air Force One Monday, telling Fox New she planned to erase the conviction of someone "very, very important."
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