10/09/2026
Fun Fact Friday! 🗳️
Suffering Suffragettes.
Not only could women not vote, but, until the early 1900s, women in America were also prohibited from becoming Notaries.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. held that since there was no record of women holding the office in England, it could not be affirmed that women were capable of being Notaries.
Today, more than two-thirds of America’s Notaries are women.