Founding+Documents

=Organic Act= Approved by Congress July 25, 1868, creating Wyoming Territory. The territory was formally organized on May 19, 1869, when Governor John A. Campbell arrived in Cheyenne to take office.
 * Wyoming's Founding Documents **

=**Women's Suffrage Act, 1869**= Approved by the Territorial Assembly and signed into law by Governor John A. Campbell on December 10, 1869. This act was the first in the nation to guarantee universal suffrage.



=**State Constitution, 1889**= Drafted during the Wyoming Constitutional Convention September 3-30, 1889. Approved by voters November 5, 1889. Wyoming became a state on July 10, 1890. Much of the wording and concepts were borrowed from other constitutions, but the sections on universal suffrage and water were unique to Wyoming.