Wyoming became the first U.S. territory to grant women the right to vote in 1869, and the first state to give women the right to vote when it became the 44th state in the Union in 1890. Wyoming was also the first territory and later state to allow women to hold public office. The Wyoming State Capitol Complex in Cheyenne, Wyoming, is home to many of the United States first women' s suffrage sites including the historic courtroom where women were first given the right to vote in the United States, and the site where Esther Hobart Morris and Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first female justice of the peace and governor respectively.

Esther Hobart Morris was the first appointed justice of the peace in the United States, and an advocate for women's suffrage. She took office in South Pass City, Wyoming in 1870. The Wyoming Capitol is home to two statues of Morris, one in front of the Wyoming supreme court building, and one inside the Capitol building. Across the Street from the statue of Esther Hobart Morris, is a statue of Nellie Tayloe Ross, who became the first female governor in the U.S. in 1925, and later served as the director of the U.S. Mint.

Along with these two statues there is a larger statue of Esther Hobart Morris inside the Capitol building, and the Capitol has an entire wing where each room is named for an influential woman in Wyoming history, Ross and Morris included. In downtown Cheyenne, at the corner of Carey Avenue and 17th Street, there is a mural commemorating Wyoming women’s suffrage that was placed on the 150th anniversary of the passage of women’s right to vote in the territory of Wyoming.