Representation in Legislation

...to deprive them of the right to participate in the government is to make an arbitrary division of the citizenship of the country...
(George Sutherland, Speech on Women's Suffrage, December 1915)

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Interior of Salt Lake City Tabneracle Decorated for Inauguration, 1896. Utah State Historical Society.

Part of Utah’s complicated history is recognizing who was not acknowledged by or included among the state’s early leaders.