Whereas the purpose of National Women’s History Month is to increase awareness and knowledge of women’s involvement in history; Whereas the first women’s rights convention was held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, and launched the women’s suffrage movement; Whereas key women’s suffrage leaders, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, attended the Seneca Falls Convention, inspiring future women’s suffrage leaders, including Susan B. Anthony; Whereas, in 1869, Wyoming was the first State to grant women the right to vote; Whereas, in 1872, Susan B. Anthony was arrested for illegally voting and was fined $100, angering countless Americans and bringing national attention to the women’s suffrage movement; Whereas, in 1913, Harriet Tubman was buried with military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, New York, after a valiant life spent fighting to end slavery, aiding freedmen, and advocating for women’s suffrage with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; Whereas, in 1913, antilynching crusader and women’s suffrage leader, Ida B. Wells, Black women from Howard University, and many other notable Black women joined the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade to ensure that the leadership and work for women’s suffrage by Black women would be recognized; Whereas, in 1916, Representative Jeanette Rankin of Montana was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives, four years before women had the right to vote nationally; Whereas after over 70 years of advocacy, women were granted the right to vote in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution; Whereas, in 1922, Rebecca Felton of Georgia was the first woman appointed to serve in the Senate; Whereas, in 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming was elected as the first woman to serve as Governor of a State; Whereas, in 1932, Hattie Caraway of Arkansas was the first woman elected to the Senate; Whereas, in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated the first female Cabinet Secretary, Francis Perkins, who served as Secretary of Labor