In 1920 Laura Clay was a founder of the Democratic Women 's Club of Kentucky . That same year , she served as a delegate at the 1920 Democratic National Convention held in San Francisco between 28 June and 6 July 1920 . Laura Clay made American history as one of the first women ( alongside fellow Kentucky delegate Cora Wilson Stewart ) to be put forward as a candidate for the Presidential nomination of a major political party ; and , thanks to the Kentucky delegates ' chairman Augustus Owsley Stanley and Stewart were the first two women to receive a vote each for candidate for president . On the 44th ballot , Governor James M. Cox of Ohio was nominated as the Democratic Party candidate for president with Franklin D. Roosevelt , the assistant secretary of the Navy from New York , as his vice-presidential running mate . The Democratic Party 's platform supported women 's suffrage ; after a hard-fought series of votes in the U.S. Congress and in state legislatures , the Nineteenth Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution on August 26 , 1920 . ( It states , " The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex . " ) In 1928 Clay actively supported the presidential candidacy of Governor Al Smith of New York and opposed Prohibition . In 1933 , she served as temporary chairman of the Kentucky Convention to ratify the Twenty-First Amendment , which was ratified on December 5 , 1933 , and repealed the Eighteenth Amendment ( that had introduced Prohibition when ratified on January 16 , 1919 )
1920 Democratic National Convention
1920 Democratic National Convention
Laura Clay