A Woman Mayor? In 1893, Colorado men voted to grant Colorado women the right to vote, 27 years before the 19th Amendment to the Constitution! Colorado women didn’t waste any time. They ran for, and served on, the Colorado General Assembly beginning in 1894. Today, Colorado has more women in the legislature than most states with forty-nine women filling the 100 seats. Thirty-six are State Representatives and thirteen are State Senators.
Although Margaret “Molly” Brown campaigned for the U.S. Senate in 1914, no Colorado woman has been elected to the U.S. Senate. Currently four Colorado women serve in the U.S. House.
Though many have tried, remarkably, no woman has been elected Governor nor Mayor of our capital city, Denver.