How ‘agitators’ for women’s suffrage shaped Colorado’s 1876 constitution

By: Chase Woodruff

Outlets: Colorado Newsline

Published: January 9, 2026

Words: 1,448

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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Though Colorado was on the verge of statehood in early 1876, it wouldn’t have a Capitol building for almost another 20 years. It fell to John Taffe, the territorial secretary, to rent two large rooms at a Lawrence Street building owned by the Odd Fellows fraternal order, a space praised by the Denver Times as “the best ever obtained for the Legislature (and) not more than ordinarily expensive.”

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