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First woman to vote casts ballot in Detroit
April 3, 2022 @ 12:00 am
Nannette B. Gardner, a wealthy Detroit widow, became the first woman to vote in a Detroit election on this day in 1871. It would be nearly half a century before another woman would be allowed to do the same. She presented the inspectors with flowers.