102-year-old delegate casts Arizona ballots for Clinton

“All the little old ladies, with their gloves and everything, were so excited”, she said of her mother’s vote in that first presidential election.

Speaking from NY, and surrounded by girls and young women, Clinton told them: “I may become the first woman president, but one of you is next”.

Despite tension and the lack of unity at the Democratic National Convention so far, Tuesday night was a moment for women to celebrate.

Her vote for Clinton came almost 100 years after women gained the right to vote through the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

“I was just was so happy when Arizona gave women the right to vote”, Emmett told Peter Alexander on NBC Nightly News.

FDR, who adeptly guided the U.S. out of the Great Depression and through World War II, made an impression on Emmett and she has voted Democrat ever since.

“He went to hug her”, Hydrick said, and Emmett asked Lewis if he knew a friend of hers.

Emmett, who is legally blind and has trouble hearing, says she was honored to help make history as a centenarian.

More than two decades later, Emmett traveled to the DNC as an honorary delegate her best friend Carolyn Warner, a superdelegate also from Arizona. Clinton held a sign that read “101 years young and voting for Hillary”. Political experts are eyeing the traditionally conservative southwest state as one that might lean towards the Democratic candidate in an election year if the Latino electorate turns forcefully against Republican nominee Donald Trump. Should she win, she will be America’s first woman president.

Whether a woman is capable of serving as President isn’t a question.

Geraldine “Jerry” Emmett was born in 1914, before women had the right to vote. She is optimistic about Clinton’s chances, in fact she already has a dress picked out for the inauguration.