Virginia Minor (1824–1894) was active in the suffrage movement in St. Louis County, Missouri, and in 1867 cofounded and became president of the Women’s Suffrage Association of Missouri. Knowing that she would be rejected but determined to take the suffrage issue to court, Minor tried to vote in St. Louis in 1872. When this was predictably refused, she sued the St. Louis Registrar, Reese Happersett. The case went to the Supreme Court, which rejected the appeal on March 29, 1875, by a 9–0 vote. Minor’s argument that her citizenship rights under the Fourteenth Amendment entitled her to vote was countered by the Court’s ruling that citizenship did not necessarily carry with it the right to vote. This decision contributed to a push to enfranchise women by a separate constitutional amendment (eventually the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919).