102-Year-Old Born Before Women's Suffrage Casts Ballot For Clinton

[underpants]

“It was the greatest thrill of my life," Geraldine "Jerry" Emmett said.

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As a child, she remembers watching her mother vote for the first time after the 19th Amendment was ratified, guaranteeing women the right to vote, in August of 1920.

“I can remember how proud I was of her. And now look at us. We’re going to make peace in the world for everybody,” she told The Huffington Post back in July.

The former school teacher has been a tireless advocate for the former First Lady and Secretary of State. In addition to speaking at Clinton campaign events, over the summer she served as an honorary delegate representing her home state at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

“I will be so proud to see a woman president of the United States of America,” she told HuffPost.

[lpbk2713]

1. I love it.

Go girl.

[Eleanors38]

2. My Mom is 97 this month. Can't stand tRump. nt

[frazzled]

3. My soon-to-be 100-year-old Dad just voted for her, too!

He was also born before suffrage. Let's hear it for the centenarians. Even the men ones!

[underpants]

5. Yaaay men ones!

[Warpy]

4. She looks great, like she's got more years to go

I wonder what my great grandmother would think of this. She bred and trained race horses, told her husbands (3 of them) to paddle their own canoes, and was a strong Suffragette. My mother said one of her proudest moments was casting her first ballot. She died shortly afterward when one of the horses threw her and the world has been a poorer place since then.

[leftynyc]

6. Love that's she's rocking a WHITE suit

I'm thinking a nod to the suffragettes.

[ham_actor]

7. Wonderful!

I hope she happens to be a Cubs fan too!

[underpants]

8. Wouldn't THAT be something.

I can't wait for tonight. Due to WGN I am partially a Cubs fan like a lot of people. I'm guessing you are a Cubs fan. I think either way it's going to be a historic night.

[angrychair]

10. I always marvel at these stories

Stark reminders that women, people of color and LGBTQ citizens have only, all to recently, fought very hard to win the right to be treated as equals in our "Land of the free and the home of the brave".

While we are a great country and we have come very far, we still have a ways to go in a country that bills itself a the leader of the free world.