Sallie D. Hayden

Sallie Davis Hayden belongs to the long fight for the vote. Married into the family that founded Tempe, she served as vice president of the Arizona Territorial Suffrage Association in 1895 and organized local suffragists who met in the family's old adobe home. Her cause outlived her: her son, Senator Carl Hayden, carried the family's politics to Washington and in 1913 introduced a suffrage resolution in Congress, years before the Nineteenth Amendment. Her marker, on the road to that amendment, restores a woman's name to a founding story usually told through her husband and son.

What the plaque says

Road to the 19th Amendment. 1842 to 1907. Vice president of the Arizona Territorial Suffrage Association in 1895 and mother of U.S. Senator Carl Hayden, who introduced a suffrage resolution in Congress in 1913.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Phoenix — 7.8 mi
  The fifth-largest US city, built on the canals of a thousand-year-old one
• Heard Museum — 8.1 mi
  The Native Southwest, told in the first person
• Taliesin West — 13 mi
  Frank Lloyd Wright's desert masterwork, grown from the ground it stands on

More markers nearby

• Site of Hayden's Ferry — steps away
• Hayden House — steps away
• Tempe Hardware Building — 0.3 mi
• The Old Church — 0.6 mi