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Deseret News In Utah politics, women are just getting started 150 years after Utah women were the first to vote, more and more are participating in politics — including two candidates for the U.S. Senate Share this story Photo illustration by Alex Cochran, Deseret News When Seraph Young cast a ballot in a municipal election on Feb. 14, 1870, in Salt Lake City, she instantly made history. Never before had a woman voted in the United States under a law that afforded her the same suffrage rights as a man. And while the Wyoming Territory passed a suffrage law the previous December, Utah women â...

Is the future of Utah women in politics on the upswing? Samuel Benson © Photo illustration by Alex Cochran, Deseret News When Seraph Young cast a ballot in a municipal election on Feb. 14, 1870, in Salt Lake City, she instantly made history. Never before had a woman voted in the United States under a law that afforded her the same suffrage rights as a man. And while the Wyoming Territory passed a suffrage law the previous December, Utah women — by way of a measure signed just two days prior to the Feb. 14 city election — were the first in the nation to cast ballots. Six ...