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1851 – 1920 · SB 77, struck down 26 October 1917
The 1917 partial grant was Senate Bill 77 — no carrier names a "Beal act." Indiana's course: Amanda Way called the state's first women's rights convention at Winchester in 1851 — the same year the white male electorate voted Article XIII in. The partial-grant statute of 1917 is the Woman's Suffrage Act, Senate Bill 77 (the Maston/McKinley bill): passed both houses 22 February 1917, signed by Governor Goodrich 28 February 1917, giving women votes for presidential electors, certain offices, municipal, school, and special elections; the companion full-suffrage measure was the Beardsley Amendment. Through the summer of 1917 thousands of Indiana women registered — and on 26 October 1917 the Indiana Supreme Court held the act unconstitutional (the Indianapolis News headline that day: "Supreme Court Holds Indiana Women Can Not Vote"): registered, and then unregistered by the court, before the November elections. The General Assembly ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on 16 January 1920, and Indiana women first voted in a general election on 2 November 1920. The correction stands in the open because an uncorrected gloss would have planted a statute that does not exist. For the township itself: no suffrage organisation, meeting, speaker, petitioner, or league chapter in Lakeville or Union Township was foundStandard runs for 1911–1920 and the Franchise League's local lists. The League of Women Voters stands at county pointer only.