The women's hall of fame was created in 1969 in Seneca Falls, New York, the birthplaceof the battle for women's voting rights, which were granted in 1920.
I'm a United States Senator because in 1848 a group of courageous women and a few brave men gathered in SenecaFalls, NewYork, many traveling for days and nights, to participate in the first convention on women's rights in our history.
Nine women will be enshrined at an Oct. 12 ceremony in SenecaFalls, the western NewYork village where the first known women's rights convention was held.