tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post5519128373178180462..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: The First Socialist Candidate for President of the USAUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-31173679888224794402016-02-21T21:37:13.805-05:002016-02-21T21:37:13.805-05:00My grandmother was 10 years older than yours. She...My grandmother was 10 years older than yours. She was 31 when she got to vote for the first time in 1920. I don't know, but I'm reasonably sure that she voted for Harding. Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-67754972564804918692016-02-20T04:51:05.257-05:002016-02-20T04:51:05.257-05:00My late, sainted grandmother turned 21 in October ...My late, sainted grandmother turned 21 in October 1920. Just in time to vote---the first time WOMEN could vote!---for Eugene V Debs. [Don't know whom she'd vote for if she were still alive...in the Dem primary that is! But in the time that *I* knew her, she was very much a feminist.]JCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-45419673357158106182016-02-19T22:20:11.157-05:002016-02-19T22:20:11.157-05:00Doug, what a great reminder of someone who mattere...Doug, what a great reminder of someone who mattered a lot in his own time, and whose legacy still matters!Mary Clarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17740106390949553500noreply@blogger.com