NEW: President Trump says he will grant a pardon to women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony.
Anthony cast a ballot in Rochester, New York, in the 1872 presidential election and was arrested for the act and put on trial.
At her trial, Anthony testified, “Your denial of my citizen’s right to vote is the denial of my right of consent as one of the governed … the denial of my sacred rights to life, liberty, property,” according to the Library of Congress. Anthony never paid a $100 fine she received and never served jail time, according to the House Office of the Historian. The 19th Amendment, which Anthony fought for, was ratified 14 years after she died.
Trump’s announcement comes a day after he said that he planned to pardon someone “very, very important” on Tuesday, adding that it wouldn’t be
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