Amalia Post

[4] In 1864, in Chicago, 1864, she married Morton Everel Post, and with her husband crossed the Great Plains in 1866, settling in Denver, Colorado, and moving to Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1867, where they lived subsequently.

That the movement was a success and became a permanent feature of Wyoming's political history was due to the wise use of its privileges by the educated and cultured women of the Territory.

Without lessening the respect in which they were held, Post and other prominent women quietly assumed their political privileges and duties.

To Post he said:— "I came here opposed to woman suffrage, but the eagerness and fidelity with which you and your friends have performed political duties, when called upon to act, has convinced me that you deserve to enjoy those rights."

By an earnest appeal to one of the best educated members, she won him to its support, and, upon the final ballot being taken upon the proposal to pass the bill over the governor's veto, that man, Senator Foster, voted "No," and woman suffrage became a permanency in Wyoming.

[5][3] In 1890, after equal rights to Wyoming women had been secured irrevocably by the constitution adopted by the people of the new State, Post was made president of the committees having in charge the statehood celebration.